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1 total messages Started by Amos Shapira Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:13
Autoconfig's lack of configurability
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Author: Amos Shapira
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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