Re: 2 questions on automake

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 16, 2001, Reinhard Müller <address@hidden> wrote:

> Tom Tromey wrote:
>> According to my test, at least cvs automake does remove Makefile.in on
>> `maintainer-clean'.
>> 
>> It does not remove aclocal.m4 or configure, though.  It should.  My
>> test will ensure that we (eventually) fix this.

> Let me add config.guess, config.sub, ltconfig, ltmain.sh [...] to
> the list of proposed standard-maintainercleanfiles.

I strongly disagree.  Even though these files are often imported from
central repositories, they're actually part of a package, since
they're sometimes modified to suit local needs.  Removing them
shouldn't be taken lightly.

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