Re: 2 questions on automake

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Wednesday 16 May 2001  5:26 am, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >> I'm not sure about the cvs automake.  I'll write a test.
>
> Gary> Neither CVS or 1.4-p1 do this by default.  I developed a habit
> Gary> of adding `MAINTAINERCLEANFILES += Makefile.in' to all of my
> Gary> Makefile.am's and never thought to report it.
>
> According to my test, at least cvs automake does remove Makefile.in on
> `maintainer-clean'.

Wow, I read perl worse than I thought!  Either that or there is a bug in my 
grep! ;-)

> It does not remove aclocal.m4 or configure, though.  It should.  My
> test will ensure that we (eventually) fix this.
>
> I don't think this is critical for the 1.4 series.

Just the same, if it is fixed in mainline by the time 1.4-p2 seems pertinent, 
I'll backport the patch.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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