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Re: avoiding target $(srcdir)/Makefile.in
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john heasley |
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Re: avoiding target $(srcdir)/Makefile.in |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:40:35 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:42:06PM -0600, Tom Tromey darkened my spool with the
following:
> >>>>> "john" == john heasley <address@hidden> writes:
>
> john> is there a macro or option to automake to ommit the target
> john> for $(srcdir)/Makefile.in, such that it is not necessary to
> john> include Makefile.am and configure.in in a distribution?
>
> FYI, we don't support not distributing these files. It probably won't
> break, but I think it is important that we encourage everybody to
> distribute these files.
>
> In the past I've had bad experiences with packages that don't
> distribute configure.in. I'm strongly against that practice.
>
> Tom
thanks. really appreciate your comments.