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".
This seems wholly unnecessary. configure.lineno is an implementation detail which ensures that config.log will contain appropriate line number references, however the utility of configure.lineno expires once configure.lineno itself is done executing. The line numbers recorded in config.log will always validly reference lines in configure itself, and a user reading the line numbers for debugging purposes will always consult the mentioned lines in configure, rather than configure.lineno. There is no additional information to be gleaned from configure.lineno which is not already available from configure itself. Thus, configure.lineno is superfluous once execution terminates. Consequently, it is safe for configure to delete configure.lineno.
-- ES
