Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

2008-03-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And in the process of testing, I noticed that 'make distclean' > was triggering an autoreconf to update the version stamp - a rather pointless > waste of time, if you ask me, since the tree is about to be nuked. Ahh... that part is long overdue. Thanks. I c

Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

2008-03-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for waiting. Here's the improved patch, tested with both in-place and > VPATH builds. And in the process of testing, I noticed that 'make distclean' > was triggering an autoreconf to update the version stamp - a rather pointless > waste of time, if y

Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > > 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, c

Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

2008-03-04 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:57:51PM CET: > 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

Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

2008-03-04 Thread Jim Meyering
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. > | > | Rat

Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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! Thank