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Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case
From: |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case |
Date: |
31 Jan 2002 22:31:53 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
Ralf> Am Don, 2002-01-31 um 17.27 schrieb Russ Allbery:
[...]
>> Why are you lowercasing the package name?
For the same reason a leading `GNU ' is stripped: because for
most packages this is the way to transform a package name into a
tarball name.
`GNU Autoconf' => `autoconf'
What might confuse you is that AC_INIT's first argument is NOT a
tarname, it's the name of a package, as printed in banners
test-suites, etc.
The issue was that there was no easy way to specify a tarball
name when Autoconf guess it wrong. Is there any point in
continuing this thread, now that Akim has added a fourth
argument for this purpose?
[...]
Ralf> * All existing automake-based packages will not be affected, because
Ralf> automake <= 1.5 requires the old AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE syntax, which
Ralf> prevented this issue to show, even if using autoconf >= 2.50.
Aside: some people use
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME], [AC_PACKAGE_VERSION])
(this won't work with Automake in --gnits mode, though)
[...]
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, (continued)
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/01/31
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Ralf Corsepius, 2002/01/31
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Akim Demaille, 2002/01/31
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Russ Allbery, 2002/01/31
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Ralf Corsepius, 2002/01/31
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case, Dan Kegel, 2002/01/31
- Re: AC_INIT translates PACKAGE to lower case,
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <=