Re: [patch] don't discard previous config.log before necessary

[Lars J. Aas]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:58:58PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
: On Feb 13, 2001, "Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> wrote:
: 
: > +rm -f config.log
: > +mv AS_MESSAGE_LOG_NAME config.log
: > +m4_define([AS_MESSAGE_LOG_NAME], [config.log])dnl
: > +exec AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD>>AS_MESSAGE_LOG_NAME])
: 
: On some systems, you can't rename an open file.
: 
: Add `exec AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD >& 2' before the `mv' and it should work.

Thanks.

: But I suppose we need some clean-up action for conf-log.tmp.

Yes.  Do you know if configure has many exit points in AC_INIT (so a trap
should be set up) or if it's just the one after option parsing?

: Also, I have a slight preference for the name config.Tlog instead of
: conf-log.tmp.  But maybe it's just me.

No, I'm with you.  I'm just not used to think in those conventions so I
didn't think of that name.  I was never happy with the file name (which is
part of the reason I put it in a define).

  Lars J
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