Re: Version 1.6 preview

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Egil Kvaleberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 13:05, Andreas Metzler wrote:
 
> > 2.53 works. Could you please setup a correct AC_PREREQ(2.50) 
 
> Done. 
 
> But presumably, you do not need autoconf at all to do a straight
> configure and build?

Yes, but I had to play with configure.in myself.

>> and
>> rename configure.in to configure.ac?
 
> Have done that too, although reluctantly so since it is then not so easy
> to follow CVS diffs. Is there a good reason why configure.in cannot be
> retained?

I am happy with just AC_PREREQ, feel free to make a re-rename.
I think you know more about autoconf than me, I suggested the
renaming because configure.ac seems to be the prefered filename:
| Previous versions of Autoconf promoted the name `configure.in',
| which is somewhat ambiguous (the tool needed to produce this
| file is not described by its extension), and introduces a slight
| confusion with `config.h.in' and so on (for which `.in' means
| "to be processed by `configure'"). Using `configure.ac' is now
| preferred.

               cu andreas
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