Re: Protection against stupid developers

[Dan Kegel]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
> I have three times now blown away scripts I've
> written and started autoconfisticating by
> forgetting to rename them .in before running configure.

And twice now by accidentally putting in the .in suffix
inside the AC_OUTPUT line.  Autoconf ought to
be able to catch that and avoid deleting the file.
 
> If I wrote a patch for autoconf that refuses to delete
> output files if the corresponding input file didn't exist,
> think the maintainer would accept it?
> Or is there already a patch for that somewhere?

- Dan, who really needs protection from himself