[m-rev.] diff: scripts/Mmakefile documentation

[Zoltan Somogyi]

The documentation added by this change is from mail Fergus sent me.

Zoltan.

scripts/Mmakefile:
	Document why we don't uninstall $(EMACS_SCRIPTS) here.

cvs diff: Diffing .
Index: Mmakefile
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/scripts/Mmakefile,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -b -r1.23 Mmakefile
--- Mmakefile	2001/07/09 04:58:52	1.23
+++ Mmakefile	2001/07/13 07:28:22
@@ -107,7 +107,12 @@
 	-rm -r $(INSTALL_LIBDIR)/mmake
 	-cd $(INSTALL_BINDIR) && rm $(SCRIPTS) 
 	-cd $(INSTALL_LIBDIR)/mdb && rm $(DEBUGGER_SCRIPTS)
-	# Is there any reason why we don't uninstall $(EMACS_SCRIPTS) here?
+	# The reason why we don't uninstall $(EMACS_SCRIPTS) specifically here
+	# is that the uninstall rule in the top-level Mmakefile does an "rm -r"
+	# on $(INSTALL_LIBDIR), and the directory into which $(EMACS_SCRIPTS)
+	# is installed, $(INSTALL_ELISP_DIR), is configured to be a
+	# subdirectory of $(INSTALL_LIBDIR).
+	#
 	# We try to uninstall $(CGI_SCRIPTS), but failure to do so is not an
 	# error for two reasons: because we may simply lack permission to
 	# update the directory, and because the deep profiler installation
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