On 06 Jan 2004 13:32:45 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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? > > Wouldn't a special debug mode be more suitable for that purpose? > 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. I believe that we can use ac_clean_files to accomplish this without creating a tight coupling between the two macros. > Anybody want to volunteer to write a patch? I will take a stab at it since I am the one who complained about it. -- ES
