Re: [AUCTeX-devel] make and stuff in autogen.sh

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-04-28) writes:
>
>> If you have a better proposal, I want to hear it.
>
> Actually looking at the maintainer-clean target, my last proposal
> doesn't seem to be such a good idea because the target deletes the
> plain text documentation generated by autogen.sh.  Probably a better
> way would be to let autom4te.cache be removed in autogen.sh (as it is
> now) and use
>
> ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make distclean
>
> instead.  Of course, the distclean target will have to descend into
> the preview directory.
>
> It is a pity that one cannot pass a command line argument to autoconf
> for inhibiting the generation of autom4te.cache.

The documentation states that it can be removed at any time.  One
could also inhibit it by a .autom4te.cfg file, but I don't think that
we should fool around with dot files in a distribution if we can avoid
it.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum