[tlbuild] accidental ./configure and rolling back

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 23:18, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>    it seems that something is a tiny bit broken in configure scripts).
>
> I don't know what you mean.

If I first run
    ./configure
then both
    make clean
and
    make distclean
fail to work.

>    Also, I would expect the build script to stop earlier.
>
> The idea is that some people want to use Build in the source directory,
> and/or use configure&&make directly.  The presence of the Makefile
> (created in configure) indicated that is what you are doing.  So it goes
> forward.

Yes, but it first fails with a fatal error, then continues for quite
some time until it realizes that error has happened. It could stop
right away when it hits the error for the first time.

Mojca