automake 1.7.2: Suggestions for improvement

[Matthias Andree]

Hi,

I have two suggestions for automake; one is for 1.7, and one possibly
only for 1.8:

1. automake Makefiles should pass the -f option when running mv in
fastdep mode, to avoid queries:

if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.  -I./dcdflib/doc  -DBOGOFILTER -pipe [...] 
-Wno-system-headers -MT datastore_db.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/datastore_db.Tpo" \
  -c -o datastore_db.o `test -f 'datastore_db.c' || echo './'`datastore_db.c; \
  then mv ".deps/datastore_db.Tpo" ".deps/datastore_db.Po"; \
  else rm -f ".deps/datastore_db.Tpo"; exit 1; \
  fi
mv: overwrite `.deps/datastore_db.Po', overriding mode 0644?

2. Would it be possible to have automake auto-generate an "uninstall" shell
script in the current working directory? That way, the user doesn't need
to have the source around to be able to "make uninstall", he could then
"sh uninstall-$(PACKAGE)" instead.

Thanks for reading this,

-- 
Matthias Andree