Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH
Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
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Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ralf, Jim, > > According to Jim Meyering on 3/4/2008 4:37 AM: > |>> + [AC_CONFIG_LINKS([GNUmakefile:GNUmakefile])]) > |> Until Automake is fixed, this will cause > |> ./configure && make distclean > |> > |> to bogusly remove GNUmakefile. > | > | Rats! Thanks for the heads-up, Ralf. > > However, the automake manual states that "parts of the specification using > shell variables will be ignored as far as cleaning and distributing is > concerned". So how about this workaround? Nice. I like it. I'll wait a few hours before applying it, this time :-) > (Should we also have a distclean-local rule in Makefile.am that removes > the GNUmakefile symlink in VPATH builds, but is a no-op in in-place builds?) That would be um, clean.