GNU bug report logs - #12899
Build failure from latest master

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 12899 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12899: Build failure from latest master
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:44:48 +0100

Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> Hi Paul, thanks for the quick feedback.
>
> On 11/15/2012 10:03 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Thanks, wouldn't the following be a bit cleaner,
>> since MAINTAINERCLEANFILES contains BUILT_SOURCES?
>>
> Possibly yes, but since this behaviour is not documented in the Automake
> manual, I'd marginally (60-40) prefer not rely on it.  Not a big deal
> in any case, so feel free to mend my patch if you like, with my ACK.

I too prefer to use BUILT_SOURCES, and using it here is
consistent with the numerous other uses in that file.

Which behavior is not documented?
The MAINTAINERCLEANFILES-containing-BUILT_SOURCES is done
via this in src/local.mk:

  MAINTAINERCLEANFILES += $(BUILT_SOURCES)
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