Hello John,
* John Calcote wrote on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:55:40PM CET:
> Can someone please tell me what is the high-level purpose of the
> stamp-h.in file (and those files generated from it)? I understand
> it's a timestamp file - what I want to know is what it's used for by
> automake. And, for that matter, is it even used anymore in current
> versions of automake?
It is unused since the Nov 5 09:24:06 2001 commit
* automake.in (@common_sometimes, &handle_configure): No longer
use stamp-hin.
* lib/am/remake-hdr.am: Adjust.
* tests/confh.test: There is no stamp.hin.
(which corresponds to development of Automake 1.5b or so), and used to
play some role together with stamp-h.
That was before I knew what Automake was.
> I find nothing in the manual that suggests it even exists, much less
> what it's for. This maybe because it's no longer needed, and has thus
> be removed from the manual...
This is what I found using "git -Sstamp-h.in":
+2001-11-08 Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+ * automake.texi: Remove references to stamp-h.in, which no longer
+ exist.
+ * tests/stamph2.test: Formatting change.
+
2001-11-08 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tests/suffix3.test: Check for foo.$(OBJEXT) in Makefile.in.
diff --git a/automake.texi b/automake.texi
index 31a24b4..e1ec2e1 100644
--- a/automake.texi
+++ b/automake.texi
@@ -1331,8 +1331,7 @@ Print the version number of Automake and exit.
@table @code
@item AM_CONFIG_HEADER
Automake will generate rules to automatically regenerate the config
-header. If you do use this macro, you must create the file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in your source directory. It can be empty.
+header.
@cvindex AM_CONFIG_HEADER
@item AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB
Cheers,
Ralf
