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