| Akim Demaille writes:
| > What I'm doing now is buying my freedom. The freedom to extend
| > Autoconf without 1. requiring from the rest of the world that they
| > adjust their distclean rules, 2. requiring that Automake folks release
| > a newer Automake etc., not to mention that it needs 1. writing
| > documentation, 2. telling the people to read it.
|
| All of these are good goals, but there are at least three other ways to
| achieve them:
|
| 1. _AC_EXTRA_CLEAN_FILES([configure.lineno autom4te.cache])
|
| To be traced by automake.
So you are throwing away the non Automake users, and you lose the
ability to run ./configure --clean without Makefile (precisely after a
distclean).
| 2. AC_SUBST(ac_extra_clean_files, [configure.lineno autom4te.cache])
|
| To be added to DISTCLEANFILES in automake-generated makefiles.
The two are completely different, and I certainly don't want configure
to remove autom4te.cache, as it's a maintainerclean file.
| 3. {configure,config.status} --print-extra-clean-files
|
| Not very pretty, but you get the idea.
Guess what...
| ~/src/bison-1.29 % ./config.status --help
| `config.status' instantiates files from templates according to the
| current configuration.
|
| Usage: ./config.status [OPTIONS] [FILE]...
|
| -h, --help print this help, then exit
| -V, --version print version number, then exit
| -d, --debug don't remove temporary files
| --recheck update config.status by reconfiguring in the same conditions
| --file=FILE[:TEMPLATE]
| instantiate the configuration file FILE
| --header=FILE[:TEMPLATE]
| instantiate the configuration header FILE
|
| Configuration files:
| tests/bison tests/Makefile tests/atlocal Makefile config/Makefile intl/Makefile
|po/Makefile.in lib/Makefile src/Makefile doc/Makefile m4/Makefile
|
| Configuration headers:
| config.h:config.hin
|
| Configuration commands:
| tests/atconfig depfiles default-1
|
| Report bugs to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
