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Re: 26-makesort.patch

To: Raja R Harinath <harinath at cs dot umn dot edu>
Subject: Re: 26-makesort.patch
From: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
Date: 06 Feb 2001 16:41:45 +0100
Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, Automake <automake at gnu dot org>
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Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:

> Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> writes:
> [snip] 
> > For instance, I find it quite annoying to have to know that Automake
> > knows the -local targets: the code of 25 makes it possible for users
> > to have just there own `clean:' target which will be appended to the
> > existing code.
> 
> That seems counter to current 'automake' behaviour.  IIRC, if automake
> sees a "special" target in Makefile.am, it won't generate code for
> that target.  E.g., if the Makefile.am has a 'check:' target, the
> builtin test harness will not be generated.

Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't know.  And I don't remember I
saw such code either...

References:
- 26-makesort.patch
  - From: Akim Demaille
- Re: 26-makesort.patch
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: 26-makesort.patch
  - From: Akim Demaille
- Re: 26-makesort.patch
  - From: Raja R Harinath

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