Reverting 51-gary-vpath-build-fixes.patch [WAS Re: FYI: 51-gary-vpath-build-fixes.patch]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Akim Demaille wrote:
>  > Index: ChangeLog
>  > from  Gary V. Vaughan  <address@hidden>
>  >   * config/Makefile.am (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES, ACLOCAL_MACROS)
>  >   (STANDARD_TOOLS, SPECIFIC_MACROS): Needed `$(srcdir)/' for VPATH
>  >   builds to work.
>  >   (SPECIFIC_TOOLS): New variable.  Moved mkstamp to here.
>  >   (EXTRA_DIST): Use it.
>
> I don't understand the point of this patch.  What was the problem?  It
> is exceptional in Automake to have to specify $(srcdir).  Just imagine
> you'd have to do that for sources etc.

I made a whole bunch of changes, some to get `make distcheck' to work, and 
then broke those changes down into patches after I got it working.  It must 
have been something else I did that got it to pass in the end.

> So there must have been something else happen here.  AFAICT, this
> patch should be useless (and reverted). 

Quite right.  I am a dufus =)O|  Just reverted.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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