* Makefile.am: Add a comment explaining why suffix rules are not

used there.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 47a20c5e938b5f2f627f3cb32c8790dd6f774c77..6197e3f63f3ffbc1219628b001b7f552d89f59a2 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-12-18  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
+
+       * Makefile.am: Add a comment explaining why suffix rules are not
+       used there.
+
 2000-12-15  Pavel Roskin  <proski@gnu.org>
 
        * autoconf.sh: If the "allowed" pattern is not defined set it

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 23f495c6b123dbdac744f9fbe20041e80ec63345..278b731614aa93c907e4d1b55243095f37bd0b40 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ editpl = sed \
        -e 's,@VERSION\@,$(VERSION),g' \
        -e 's,@PACKAGE\@,$(PACKAGE),g'
 
+## All the scripts below depend on configure.in so that they are rebuilt
+## when the Autoconf version changes. Unfortunately, suffix rules cannot
+## have additional dependencies, so we have to use explicit rules for
+## every script.
+
 autoconf: $(srcdir)/autoconf.sh $(srcdir)/configure.in
        rm -f autoconf autoconf.tmp
        $(editsh) $(srcdir)/autoconf.sh >autoconf.tmp