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Re: [PATCH / RFA] Strip texinfo from a copy of Makefile.in and not original
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH / RFA] Strip texinfo from a copy of Makefile.in and not original
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 10:49:07 +1100
- CC: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions
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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 19:29:05 +1100
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
>
> The attatched patch changes the ``taz:'' target so that it strips
> various texinfo bits from the proto-toplev/Makefile.in copy of
> Makefile.in instead of the original file.
>
> This stops the top level Makefile.in being affected by packaging.
>
> It is my custom, which I inherited from Ken, to check in a precise
> copy of the release on the release branch. Changing the top level
> Makefile.in, rather than the copy, makes this easier. Of course, it
> is possible either way.
> Note that the distribution process makes several other changes to the
> working tree. This is only one of them. I don't know why you want to
> change this one in particular.
Ok, I'll drop this this for the moment.
Sounds like the tree-munging should be separate to the archiveing.
Something for another rainy day.
thanks,
Andrew