On Mar 3, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to understand why there are three `rm' while one seems
> way enough. It seems like the author took a special care to remove
> the conftest files before the user can touch them.
Probably because user code could contain other tests, that could then
assume conftest* don't exist, or even `exit' statements, that would
leave conftest* files behind.
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