[Axiom-developer] configure.ac.pamphlet

[Ralf Hemmecke]

Dear Gaby,

I'm just trying to learn a bit of autoconf by going through your 
BI/configure.ac.pamphlet. I haven't used autoconf before and have not 
yet read its documentation, but your doumentation in the configure file 
helped me quite a lot to get a first impression what autoconf can do for 
Axiom and how it is done in BI. Thank your for all this explanations.

In section "Doc util" you test for latex and makeindex. Probably all 
latex distributions contain latex/pdflatex, bibtex, makeindex, but is 
there a reason that you include makeindex and don't test for bibtex? 
pdflatex might not yet be used by Axiom, I don't know.

Ralf