Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@xxxxxxx> writes: > 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? Yes, that would make sense. It is odd that 'config.status' has a -d or --debug option, to do just this, but 'configure' lacks such an option. I suppose it should have one. Fixing this in general won't be trivial, as the trap to remove temporary files (in _AC_INIT_PREPARE) is established after configure.lineno is created (in _AS_LINENO_PREPARE). The two macros ought to be decoupled as much as possible, and this would couple them more. Also, there's a similar problem with config.status and config.status.lineno. Anybody want to volunteer to write a patch?
