Re: GNUmakefile and VPATH

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for waiting.  Here's the improved patch, tested with both in-place and
> VPATH builds.  And in the process of testing, I noticed that 'make distclean'
> was triggering an autoreconf to update the version stamp - a rather pointless
> waste of time, if you ask me, since the tree is about to be nuked.

I like that.  Thanks!
Applied.

Note that your mail client split a long line, thus invalidating the patch.

> From: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:08:59 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Reinstate GNUmakefile patch, but with workaround for 
> automake.
...
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -337,13 +337,15 @@ dnl Allow maintainer rules under GNU make even in VPATH
> builds.  This does