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Article #1305Autoconfig's lack of configurability
From: Amos Shapira
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:13
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:13
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Hello, I've just looked into Autoconfig 1.3 and am a bit puzzled by the lack of configurability in a software which deals with flexibility of configurations of other software packages (got that? :). I'm raising this point because I can't install GNU m4 as 'm4' since it will break software which expect the regular behaviour. I must therefore install it under 'gm4', but then autoconfig won't find it. I can manually change it but this is not the 'right' way to go, IMHO. >From the little I know about autoconfig I think the following lines should be added when generating the 'bootstrap' configure script (why isn't autoconfig's own config.in supplied, just for educational purposes? Or am I overlooking something?) AC_DEFINE(m4) AC_PROGRAMS_CHECK(m4, gm4, m4) And change autoconf.sh to read @m4@ $MACROFILES $infile > $tmpout Hope this suggestion is accepted, and thanks very much for this wonderfull package. --Amos Shapira, CS System Group, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel amoss@cs.huji.ac.il
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.huji.ac.il!amoss From: amoss@cs.huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: Autoconfig's lack of configurability Date: 22 Jan 1993 21:13:39 -0500 Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 29 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <9301220959.AA01508@falafel.cs.huji.ac.il>