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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:39:29 -0500
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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
Subject: Re: autoconf-2.50-iscated & automake-1.5-ified packages and SFN
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At 08:07 AM 3/11/02 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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 >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.

So, for DJGPP we're saying that the bash version is the one that should 
be the most up-to-date?

 >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.

Where exactly on SimTel are the config.* files located, if you 
know?  Or did you mean download those tools and grab the config.* files 
from inside the distributions?

 >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.)

That wouldn't be me, I'm afraid.

 >> 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.

No, I meant the config.* files.  Where in the tree would they be stored 
on a Linux system, for instance?  The second question would be whether 
DJGPP has an equivalent place, or can make one.
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