FYI: comment changes in Makefile.am

[Pavel Roskin]

Index: ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog
+++ ChangeLog
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
+2000-12-18  Pavel Roskin  <address@hidden>
+
+       * Makefile.am: Add a comment explaining why suffix rules are not
+       used there.
+
 2000-12-15  Pavel Roskin  <address@hidden>
Index: Makefile.am
--- Makefile.am
+++ Makefile.am
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@
        -e 's,@VERSION\@,$(VERSION),g' \
        -e 's,@PACKAGE\@,$(PACKAGE),g'

+## All the scripts below depend on configure.in so that they are rebuilt
+## when the Autoconf version changes. Unfortunately, suffix rules cannot
+## have additional dependencies, so we have to use explicit rules for
+## every script.
+
 autoconf: $(srcdir)/autoconf.sh $(srcdir)/configure.in
        rm -f autoconf autoconf.tmp
        $(editsh) $(srcdir)/autoconf.sh >autoconf.tmp