Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:21:45 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Andris Pavenis cc: "Mark E." , djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: autoconf 2.13 test version available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote: > - more serious thing is that config.h.in and similar files (many packages > contains them). I have succeeded to convince quite a few package maintainers to switch from config.h.in to config.in or some such. Examples include TeX and related programs, Texinfo, Sed, and the next release of Grep. So apparently this is not such a big problem. Even if config.h.in is in the package, it is very simple to add a few Sed commands that will cause the configure script to convert it to config.h-in (which is how DJTAR unpacks config.h.in on DOS) when it edits Makefile.in into Makefile. > This is source of some more failures in tests. I think that > trying to change something related in automake built for DJGPP without > updating similary other packages will only break things I don't see how it could break anything. AFAIK, forcing Automake and Autoconf to use a specific name for the config.h.in file is very easy, I saw how it is done in those packages that do it already. All it requires is a small additional effort. If GNU maintainers, who generally don't care much about DOS/Windows, can do this, how come we can't?