Re: Some questions about Autotools in Emacs

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 1) In configure.ac, I found a
>>    "AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config.h:src/config.in)".  I can only find the
>>    macro `AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' in the Autoconf (2.69) manual.  Why?
>>    What's the differences of the two macros?
>
> AC_CONFIG_HEADER is an obsolete macro, identical to AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
> without the optional arguments.  I have replaced it now.
>
>> 2) I only found a Makefile.am in the lib/ directory.  Does Emacs use
>>    Automake?  If so, how?
>
> lib/ is imported from gnulib, which uses automake.

I see.  Thank you.  So, Emacs itself only uses Autoconf, but not
Automake/Libtool, right?

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