FYI: fail to boostrap with CVS autoconf/automake

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:39:34PM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 12/7/2005 2:30 AM:
> >>>In fact, while running the bootstrap script, there are complaints 
> >>>about this "missing" file for every directory.

> > Please try the patch below.
> >         * bootstrap: always remove Makefile, to avoid triggering the
> >         autotools rebuild rules before autoreconf builds these.
> >         Reported by Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden>.
> 
> That got it!  Please commit.  The only improvement I could offer is that
> if there is a config.status lying around because ./bootstrap was run in a
> preconfigured tree, then bootstrap could try running "./config.status
> - --recheck; ./config.status" to restore Makefile after so forcefully
> removing it.

Hmm.  Yes, I like the idea, but I will want to put this in only after
the next Autoconf release has propagated, because of this bug:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2005-11/msg00017.html
which leaves you with a broken libtool should you not restart configure
yourself.

I have applied the patch.

Thanks!
Ralf