Re: --ignore-missing patch

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Saturday 19 May 2001 10:44 pm, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Gary> I have been experimenting with GNU shtool recently -- it allows
> Gary> you to roll all the little scripts (mkinstalldirs, install-sh
> Gary> etc.) into a single catch-all `shtool' script.  Unfortunately,
> Gary> automake gets very upset if its own versions of these files are
> Gary> not present in the tree.  I have been running a patched automake
> Gary> to get around this, and figured it is perhaps something that you
> Gary> would like in the upstream sources?
>
> I haven't looked at the patch yet.
> I think this probably is the direction we want to go.
> However I think I would prefer to do this post-1.5.

Sure.  If we want to take the bull by the horns for this feature, we can do 
much more to have Automake support shtool more directly (which I am all for, 
by the way!).

> I'm really interested in getting us to a stopping point right now.
> In fact, aside from the manual, and any bugs of which I'm unaware, I'm
> hoping we are there right now.

Cool.  Do you still want 1.4-p2 in the mean while?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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