X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:07:14 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: "Peter J. Farley III" cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: autoconf-2.50-iscated & automake-1.5-ified packages and SFN In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020310155911.027a8ec0@mail.dorsai.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Peter J. Farley III wrote: > I know that GNU doesn't distribute the config.* files separately > packaged (though frankly, I think they really should), but perhaps > DJGPP should do so for its users. We could then include the > DJGPP-specific config.site with this (small) package. The idea is that config.site distributed with Bash should add whatever is missing in it now. Mark did that for the versions released in the past. As for other config.* files, they need to be changed in small ways as Autoconf, Automake, libtool, and other development tools evolve. They also have package-dependent names in a couple of places. So I'm not sure having a standard set of these files would help more than just downloading the latest port from SimTel. But if someone wants to make such a package, please feel free. (Personally, I'd think that it is much more important to explain all the subtleties those config.* files are supposed to deal with, than just throw them together. So if someone is up to documenting those things, it'd be great.) > Is there any common agreement in the GNU community on where in the > "standard" tree these files should be stored? DJGPP does not have a standard home in the GNU tree hierarchy, AFAIK.