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Re: autom4te.cache?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: skip at pobox dot com
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: 11 May 2002 17:19:16 -0600
- Subject: Re: autom4te.cache?
- References: <15565.31673.414340.69941@12-248-41-177.client.attbi.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Skip" == Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:
Skip> After executing "make distclean" a directory named
Skip> autom4te.cache is left over. It appears it's created by
Skip> autoconf 2.53. Whose job is it to see it gets deleted?
Skip> Shouldn't generated distclean target take care of this
Skip> automatically?
It looks like autoconf now has "config.status --clean".
So I guess we can use that. However, that means we can't release a
new automake until there is an autoconf release supporting that
feature.
Meanwhile I suggest we just `rm -rf autom4te.cache' for 1.6.2.
I'll write a patch.
Tom