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Re: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR now required when mdate-sh resides in subdir?
- To: "Derek R. Price" <dprice at collab dot net>
- Subject: Re: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR now required when mdate-sh resides in subdir?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 24 May 2001 00:24:46 -0600
- Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering at ascend dot com>, dprice at openavenue dot com, Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>, automake at gnu dot org
- List-Id: Discussion list for automake <automake.gnu.org>
- References: <ury3d9xix78.fsf@ixi.eng.ascend.com> <3B0A72CB.18B4F354@collab.net>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Derek" == Derek R Price <dprice@collab.net> writes:
Derek> I would guess that a similar exception for mdate-sh would be
Derek> acceptable if others thought it a good idea. I don't know much
Derek> about it, but glancing through the code seems to confirm that
Derek> an exception wouldn't hurt. My glance through the code also
Derek> seems to confirm that this shouldn't be too hard to accomplish.
I did this and I'm going to check it in soon.
I think this is a bit ugly but it is how we've done it historically.
Hopefully it will get less ugly whenever we move to the `one giant
shell script' model.
Tom