Re: automake --build-dir

[Lars J. Aas]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 06:57:33AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
: --- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > I made an archive file named "configure" that contains
: > a shar archive of the generated files.  It runs, recreating
: > the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf.
:                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOT PORTABLE.
: 
: Not all environments will allow you to delete an open file.  A file that
: tries to delete itself will fail on such an environment.

How about mv'ing itself out of the way (to configure.bak or something
similar)?

  Lars J