core subdirectories

   Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 13:58:31 -0700
   From: Matt Small <[email protected]>

   Editing the configure script works, but rerunning autoconf will
   destroy those changes.  I looked around, but I couldn't see a way
   to put something in the configure.in to tell autoconf not to delete
   core while it runs.

This looks like a real problem, but only if the configure script is
interrupted.  The problem lines are of the form

trap 'rm -fr conftest* confdefs* core core.* *.core $ac_clean_files; exit 1' 1 2 15

and they appear throughout the script.  These lines appear to be
generated automatically by autoconf.

It hasn't been my experience that running configure causes the core
directory to be deleted.  (That would be really awful!)  But from
looking at the code, just typing C-c at the wrong time during its
execution would cause core to be deleted.


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