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Re: Protection against stupid developers
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Dan Kegel |
Subject: |
Re: Protection against stupid developers |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Mar 2002 17:35:03 -0800 |
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