Re: gawk: simplify the hacks around version.c

[Aharon Robbins]

Greetings.  For some reason, this did not get to me directly,
I had to pull it off the newsgroup. Anyway.

> From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
> Subject: gawk: simplify the hacks around version.c
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:10:27 +0200
> To: address@hidden
>
> Hello,
>   looking at gawk configure.ac and Makefile.am, I noticed three nits;
> attached please find three tiny patches:
>
> 1) gawk-20070924-version-c.patch
>
> I do not think the hack at the end of configure.ac is needed.
> It suffices to remove version.c from AC_CONFIG_FILES and generate it
> by a rule in Makefile.am.
> For all use cases I can imagine, the new solution works as good as
> the original hack--but I may have missed something, of course.
>
> 2) gawk-20070924-suffix-i.patch
>
> More that three years ago, I submitted a hack involving version.i.
> It's life was shorter than a week.  :-)
> The .i.c rule is a residuum of that experiment and may be removed.
>
> 3) gawk-20070924-maint-clean.patch
>
> `awkgram.c' in MAINTAINERCLEANFILES is redundant; Automake knows
> about Yacc and handles that.
>
> Have a nice day,
>       Stepan Kasal

These are now all applied, thanks for the contributions. They will
be showing up in the CVS shortly.

Arnold