tags 11377 + moreinfo severity 11377 minor thanks Hi Ronald, sorry for the delay.
On 04/28/2012 10:55 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Under certain very reasonable scenarios, the configure file contained within > some source tree may perhaps be marked as read-only. > Before continuing, may I ask you which these scenarios are exactly? > When and if this occurs, > automake will fail to remove the configure file before it attempts to generate > it anew. The following trivial patch corrects this problem. > > I would really appreciate it if this small patch could be incorporated into > future releases of automake. It does no harm, and it can provably do some > good in certain circumstances. > If you convince me that the circumstances you describe are actually reasonable, we should also enhance your patch to cover the similar cases of aclocal.m4, Makefile.in, etc. created read-only (and probably add a test case to ensure we don't regress with future changes). Thanks, Stefano
