Re: 2 questions on automake

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Tuesday 15 May 2001 11:19 pm, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Reinhard" == Reinhard Mller <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Reinhard> A quick hint where to look how to make sure i'm using gcc?
>
> Read the description of AC_PROG_CC in the autoconf manual.
>
> >> It should be.  What version of automake are you using?
>
> Reinhard> It is not. I'm using automake 1.4, and it seems that 1.4-p1
> doesn't, Reinhard> either.
> Reinhard> Maybe you didn't see that I'm talking about Makefile.in
> Reinhard>                                                     ^^^
>
> I did see that.
>
> I don't recall but it is possible that 1.4 was simply buggy in this
> regard.  1.4-p1 only has a few important bug fixes; it doesn't have
> this one (if it exists).
>
> I'm not sure about the cvs automake.  I'll write a test.

Neither CVS or 1.4-p1 do this by default.  I developed a habit of adding 
`MAINTAINERCLEANFILES += Makefile.in' to all of my Makefile.am's and never 
thought to report it.  I'll backport to branch-1-4 whatever patch you commit 
to HEAD.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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