Re: autoconf 2.53 configure.lineno problems

[Paul Eggert]

> 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?

The Autoconf manual already recommends that you should add
'config.log' and 'config.cache' to the list of files you remove
in 'distclean' targets.  Presumably 'configure.lineno' should
also be added to this list.  Also, some autom4te cache files
perhaps?

Automake should do this for you automatically, of course.

(Sorry, I don't have a patch; until someone comes up with one this bug
will remain unpatched.)