Re: Configure_ac.pm

[Akim Demaille]

 > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:36:52AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
 >> 
 >> autoreconf needs to be able to pass the directory where we look for
 >> configure.ac, hence this update.  OK?

 > Of course.

 > I think Automake will need a Globals.pm to declare things like $me and
 > $configure_ac.  These variables are presently computed in every
 > packaged that uses them, and that doesn't sound right (especially
 > when the computation involves system calls as for $configure_ac).

Indeed.  But in the case of configure_ac, I don't think it would be a
terrible loss to replace such inert occurrences by simply
'configure.ac' (it appears in messages only).