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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: Noobie question about doing "src" dirs |
| Date: | Wed, 31 May 2006 16:01:51 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Stepan Kasal wrote:
Hello, On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:14:28PM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:The autoconf tutorial states that either a configure.ac or a configure.in can be used initially. What is the difference and why would you use the configure.ac over the configure.in?the only difference is that configure.in was a wrongly chosen name,
no - it was chosen consistently with a previous convention. The naming convention was changed (incompatibly) to accommodate autoconf.Whether it's consistent now is also arguable, but not very interesting to anyone.
-- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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