Paul Eggert wrote: > Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > The configure scripts generated by the newest versions of Autoconf > > leave a configure.lineno file sitting around after running the > > configure script. Is this intentional? > > I suspect so, as it helps debugging on hosts that lack line-number > support. Automake removes it as part of "make distclean". Wouldn't a special debug mode be more suitable for that purpose?