Re: Deleting Makefile.in in maintainer-clean

[Eric Siegerman]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:49:46PM +0100, Gary V . Vaughan wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 May 2001  6:43 pm, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> > The bootstrap could be a simple shell script that makes no
> > attempt to optimize out unnecessary actions -- after all, you
> > would rarely be running it unless all the actions *were*
> > necessary.
> 
> Like this?
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_43.html#SEC43

Yeah, pretty much.  Except that, as you imply, the bootstrap
script *should* be part of the distribution -- if for no other
reason, then for the benefit of those who check the distribution
into a private CVS repo, and thus get the foo/foo.in timestamps
switched around on them (CVS is guaranteed to screw this up on a
"cvs update", since it updates the files in sorted order, and,
for all values of "X", "X" sorts before "X.in").

(Minor typo on that page, btw: in "CVS does not preserve
relatively timestamps", delete the "ly".)

> > PRISTINE
> > (No smiley; I mean it.)
> 
> MRPROPER?  
> 
> :-)  I never did get the joke with `make mrproper' what is that all about 
> anyway?...

Mr. Clean?
Dr. Pepper?
I dunno...  That's from Linux, isn't it?  Maybe you have to know
Finnish to get it.

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