--- Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:22:24PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > >>>>> "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
>
> look at perl (I've seen this other places, too, but don't recall).
>
> > not named configure? Is it frequent to have build trees mixing
>
> I just said:
> "configure" == "Configure".
>
Uhm, IIRC Perl's use of configure was/is to make autoconf happy, and Configure
was the actual script from a different configuration package, IIRC, Metaconf.
Now, because of portability issues with case-insensitive filesystems (e.g.:
Win32), Perl could no longer make autoconf happy with configure so they named
it configure.gnu.
Cheers,
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