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Re: Fix building autoconf.1


From: Stepan Kasal
Subject: Re: Fix building autoconf.1
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:36:00 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

Hi,

at the end of a thread, I said (On Tue, Dec 14):
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:02:57PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Is this problem important enough to fix?
> 
> Sure it is, consider the following scenario:
> - modify bin/autoconf.as
> - cd man; make
> 
> The manpage is regenerated, thus newer than its prerequisities, yet
> the contents is obsolete.

> [...] the basic problem is that we are distributing a file which is
> generated from a non-distributed one.
> 
> It's the situation described in '(automake.info)distcleancheck'

And I promised to rework the patch according to the hints in this node.
Here it is, at last.
OK to commit?

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal

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