Re: [gettext] update .cvsignore files

[Paul Eggert]

Re <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-07/msg00087.html>
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

>>  libtool
>> -stamp-h
>> +stamp-h*
>>  alloca.h
>
> I thought that Paul Eggert had submitted, years ago, a patch through which
> only a single stamp-h would be created, and no stamp-h1, stamp-h2 etc. any
> more. No?

If you're talking about this patch:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2001-09/msg00027.html

my understanding is that the patch wasn't accepted, because (as I
wrote in that email) it didn't fix the underlying problem, and the
Automake maintainers solved the problem in a different way, one that
still generates stamp-h1, stamp-h2 etc., files.  See
automake/lib/am/remake-hdr.am, automake/m4/init.m4,
automake/automake.in.

I agree that it's annoying to have multiple stamp-h* files, but I
don't think anyone has had the time to fix it, and I don't even know
whether it'd be practical to fix it.  Until/unless someone does fix
it, it might be simplest to follow Stepan's suggestion and add
stamp-h* to gettext's .cvsignore file.