[PATCH / RFA] Strip texinfo from a copy of Makefile.in and not original

[Andrew Cagney]

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