Re: _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS: check for configure.gnu as well [Resend]

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> 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.
also known as 'dist', it's a year or two older than autoconf, was used in 
elm and a number of other packages whose configure scripts were written
around 10 years ago.

(autoconf is easier to read and doesn't require perl, but its builtin
tests aren't quite as good)

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