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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:28:33 -0600
From: bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de
Subject: Re: proposed change to autoconf macro
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> This is backwards.  Patches should be generated by "diff -c old new",
> see section 22.2 of the FAQ.

sorry about that.

> Why is it a good idea to change the script, when as far as I
> understand the problem is that the distribution has a wrong file name?

You are right. I pulled down the GNU package, and it is indeed
acoldnames.m4. 

<---------------------------  autoconf.diff
------------------------------->

diff -c share\oldacf/acgeneral.m4 share\autoconf/acgeneral.m4
*** share\oldacf/acgeneral.m4	Wed Oct 21 06:48:40 1998
--- share\autoconf/acgeneral.m4	Wed Oct 21 09:27:50 1998
***************
*** 2118,2124 ****
  ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
  [  case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
  changequote(, )dnl
!   [/$]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
  changequote([, ])dnl
    *) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
    esac
--- 2118,2124 ----
  ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
  [  case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
  changequote(, )dnl
!   [/$]*|[A-z]:/*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
  changequote([, ])dnl
    *) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
    esac
Only in share\oldacf: acoldname.m4
Only in share\autoconf: acoldnames.m4
diff -c share\oldacf/autoconf.m4f share\autoconf/autoconf.m4f
*** share\oldacf/autoconf.m4f	Wed Oct 21 06:49:02 1998
--- share\autoconf/autoconf.m4f	Wed Oct 21 09:27:58 1998
***************
*** 3928,3934 ****
    LIBS="$LIBS -lx"
  fi
  []AC_EPI()
! T15,4037
  AC_OUTPUT_FILES# Protect against being on the right side of a sed
subst in config.status.
  changequote(, )dnl
  sed 's/%@/@@/; s/@%/@@/; s/%g\$/@g/; /@g\$/s/[\\\\&%]/\\\\&/g;
--- 3928,3934 ----
    LIBS="$LIBS -lx"
  fi
  []AC_EPI()
! T15,4046
  AC_OUTPUT_FILES# Protect against being on the right side of a sed
subst in config.status.
  changequote(, )dnl
  sed 's/%@/@@/; s/@%/@@/; s/%g\$/@g/; /@g\$/s/[\\\\&%]/\\\\&/g;
***************
*** 4023,4029 ****
  ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
  [  case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
  changequote(, )dnl
!   [/$]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
  changequote([, ])dnl
    *) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
    esac
--- 4023,4029 ----
  ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
  [  case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
  changequote(, )dnl
!   [/$]*|[A-z]:/*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
  changequote([, ])dnl
    *) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
    esac