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Re: gawk: simplify the hacks around version.c
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Aharon Robbins |
Subject: |
Re: gawk: simplify the hacks around version.c |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:54:35 +0200 |
Hi. Thanks for this.
In article <address@hidden> you write:
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>
>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.
I will double check this. It is important that version.c stay
around even after make clean and make distclean. This is
needed for VMS and maybe other systems.
>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.
Will probably apply.
>3) gawk-20070924-maint-clean.patch
>
>`awkgram.c' in MAINTAINERCLEANFILES is redundant; Automake knows
>about Yacc and handles that.
I'll make sure this works for me.
Thanks,
Arnold