Ethereal-cvs: [Ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal Makefile.am

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:55:31 -0600 (CST)
guy         2001/01/15 02:55:31 CST

  Modified files:
    .                    Makefile.am 
  Log:
  Automake is a jealous god.  If, when sacrificing a goat to it, you do
  not kill the goat with the *correct* sort of knife, on the *correct*
  altar, and drink its blood from the *correct* goblet at the *correct*
  temperature, he will wreak his revenge, perhaps, for example, causing
  all your crops to sprout bearing bright green and pink polka-dots.
  
  Add an extra 3 microns to the tip of the blade, so that the Automake God
  will not be angry and fail to generate rules to install man pages.  (It
  would have been nice had the sacred scrolls described that particular
  incantation, but so it goes....)
  
  While we're at it, get rid of "EXTRA_MANS"; it doesn't appear to be
  necessary (but such hubris may, of course, bring down the wrath of the
  Automake God upon me - you can't just get rid of EXTRA_PROGRAMS, for
  example, as the Automake God then forgets how to handle "ethereal_LDADD"
  and the like - although in a test run the generated Makefile.in didn't
  *appear* to have anything missing other than a definition of EXTRA_MANS,
  which it didn't use and so presumably wouldn't miss).
  
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