bug#7884: [PATCH] yacc: fix VPATH builds with FreeBSD make (was: Re: bug#7884: Yacc and FreeBSD make in VPATH builds)

2011-01-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Thursday 27 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Does 'make -n' create files (for any target)? > No, and I've updated the `yaccdry.test' testcase to also check for this (see attached amended patch). > How do you ensure in your patch that 'make distdir' does not create files? > Well, it does,

bug#7884: [PATCH] yacc: fix VPATH builds with FreeBSD make (was: Re: bug#7884: Yacc and FreeBSD make in VPATH builds)

2011-01-28 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Thursday 27 January 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Also, I'm halfway through an automake patch on the lines I've sketched, > and I can say that it seems remarkably easy at this point ... > In fact it has been even easier than I thought, after the discovery that the same 'Automake::Variable::de