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Re: TRANSFORM = s,x,x,


From: Stephen Berman
Subject: Re: TRANSFORM = s,x,x,
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 11:34:15 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 09:52:48 +0100 Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Any hints for this problem?
>
> Not sure about actual use-cases, but if you dig into Makefile.in, you'll
> see that TRANSFORM is set from program_transform_name.  Jumping into the
> configure script, this seems to be set only when --program-prefix or
> --program-suffix are provided.
>
> No idea if this is generic autotools stuff, and/or if this is relevant
> to Emacs 🤷

It's from autoconf and seems to be intended for cross-compilation and
installing multiple versions, see e.g. 
https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.70/html_node/Transforming-Names.html#Transforming-Names

Steve Berman



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