Re: autoconf 2.53 configure.lineno problems

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "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.