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Re: Use emacs' autoconf-mode; some minor cleanup
From: |
Gary V . Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: Use emacs' autoconf-mode; some minor cleanup |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:56:25 +0100 |
On Saturday 30 June 2001 8:52 am, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > Is it really necessary to specify the package name and version
> > number twice
> > with autoconf-2.50 (AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AYTOMAKE)? If so, it
> > sucks. What
>
> Well, the automake macro sets PACKAGE and VERSIOn, and is the most
> important one. The arguments to AC_INIT merely customize the
> output of configure --version and configure --help:
>
> with plain AC_INIT, you get
>
> [--help]
> `configure' configures this package to adapt to many kinds of systems.
>
> [--version]
>
> <copyright message>
>
> with AC_INIT(flubber, 1.2.3, address@hidden), you get
>
> [--help]
> `configure' configures flubber 1.2.3 to adapt to many kinds of systems.
>
> [--version]
> flubber configure 1.2.3
> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.50
>
> <copyright message>
>
> So, it's purely cosmetic really - but still nice.
Not as awful as I had feared anyway =)O|
I'll experiment with holding the version and package in a variable or macro
to remove the redundancy.
Cheers,
Gary.
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