>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> | | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure
>> when | configuring subdirectories; this is usefull if these
>> subdirectories also | contain packages not using autoconf. | |
>> This patch originates from the GeekGadgets project |
>> (http://www.ninemoons.com/GG/).
>>
>> I don't understand this `configure.gnu' stuff. Why is not named
>> configure? This name is not reserved to Autoconf.
Thomas> It's used in the perl packages which have used 'Configure' for
Thomas> some time (but since it doesn't work on filesystems whose
Thomas> names are caseless, the alternate name was chosen).
What is its interface? Can / should we pass options to it? Why is it
not named configure? Is it frequent to have build trees mixing
different natures of configures? (I mean, aside from Cygnus/Autoconf).
