Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-37

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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Hi Noah,

On 9 Aug 2004, at 15:54, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:31:38PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> >         * Makefile.am ($(top_srcdir)/config/ltmain.sh): Continue
> >         gracefully when $srcdir is read-only, such as during make
> >         distcheck.
> >         ($(top_srcdir)/m4/ltversion.m4): Ditto.
>
> Would it not be cleaner to store newly generated versions of these 
> files in the
> build directory and let the VPATH mechanism take care of finding them? 
>  That
> would simplify the rules and also let folks actually update these 
> files even
> when the source tree is read-only.

Unfortunately not.  This is how we used to do it, and make distcheck 
would
get very confused when run in a VPATH build... I had also begun putting 
in
more and more Makefile.am hacks to work around corner cases.

The consensus is that such distributed special files should be 
maintained in
the source tree and updated during bootstrap rather that at configure 
time.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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