On Sunday 2012-01-01 10:24, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>On 12/31/2011 12:29 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>> I have seen user-induced lines in Makefile.am like these in a handful
>> of packages:
>>
>Which packages? I need more information if I am to attempt an informed
>guess ...
>
>> ${pkgconfig_DATA}: ${top_builddir}/config.status
>>
>> Given that automake 1.11.1/autoconf 2.68 seem to automatically recreate
>> files specified in AC_CONFIG_FILES when configure.ac is changed, what is
>> the actual purpose/significance of this line?
>>
>The best way to know would probably be asking the person(s) that have
>written such a line :-)
For example libntlm [http://www.nongnu.org/libntlm/releases/] in
gl/Makefile.am:
else
byteswap.h: $(top_builddir)/config.status
rm -f $@
endif
