Re: automake --build-dir

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-8<-
> 
> I just installed a cute hack in the AutoGen CVS :-)
> I made an archive file named "configure" that contains
> a shar archive of the generated files.  It runs, recreating
> the generated files, deletes itself and then runs autoconf.
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOT PORTABLE.

Not all environments will allow you to delete an open file.  A file that tries
to delete itself will fail on such an environment.

Earnie. 

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