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Re: gawk: simplify the hacks around version.c
From: |
Aharon Robbins |
Subject: |
Re: gawk: simplify the hacks around version.c |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:48:57 +0200 |
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