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Re: question about no-dist patch


From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Subject: Re: question about no-dist patch
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:07:53 +0200
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>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:

 Ralf> On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:39, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
 >> >>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
 >> 
 Tom> I wonder if it makes sense to require `no-dist' to be set in
 Tom> configure.in, and not in some particular Makefile.  Thoughts?

[...]

 Ralf> configure.ac (w/ automake "make dist" rules)
 Ralf> sub1/configure.ac (automake generated w/ no-dist and custom rules)
 Ralf> sub2/configure.ac (w/ automake "make dist" rules)

Looking at this example w.r.t. Tom's question, I think it's not
worth trying to forbid no-dist in subdirectories: Makefile.am
authors have to know that they do anyway.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz





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