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Re: autoconf 2.53 configure.lineno problems
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Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: autoconf 2.53 configure.lineno problems |
Date: |
19 Mar 2002 17:10:29 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Allan Saddi <address@hidden> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002
>> 03:15:32 -0800 (PST)
>>
>> On shells that don't support $LINENO (e.g. FreeBSD's sh), it
>> appears that configure.lineno isn't being cleaned up. This causes
>> "make distcheck" to fail when using automake-generated
>> Makefiles. Shouldn't this be cleaned up somewhere?
Paul> The Autoconf manual already recommends that you should add
Paul> 'config.log' and 'config.cache' to the list of files you remove
Paul> in 'distclean' targets. Presumably 'configure.lineno' should
Paul> also be added to this list. Also, some autom4te cache files
Paul> perhaps?
Paul> Automake should do this for you automatically, of course.
I should add that `Of course Automake should not know about this as we
already know all the problems of impedance we have between the two'.
This is why I should really implement ./config.status --clean that
remove all that was created by config.status. Or maybe it should be
./configure that should handle this.
Automake 1.7 should actually be released pretty quickly, as, as I see
it, it is 1.6 with traces enabled. I'd like to release 2.54 quickly
too, with mostly bug fixed. That --clean, if it seems like a good
idea to you, ought to be part of 2.54.