>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Akim> Alternatively (sorry for insisting but your proposal seems a bit
Akim> too ``specific'' to get into Autoconf per se), can't you just
Akim> run Configure with
Akim> AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(my/autoconfed/dir1 my/autoconfed/dir2)
Akim> AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([perl], [sh perl5/Configure])
Years ago I integrated Perl into the Cygnus tree. There was an
existing `configure' script which tried to work like a GNU configure
wrapper for Configure. The point of using this and not Configure is
that then command-line options like --prefix work, etc. (This means
you want to pass configure's options to the Perl configure --
something your idea doesn't do.)
I didn't have to deal with case insensitivity. If I had I probably
would have renamed the Perl Configure and hacked the Perl configure to
know its new name. However, that's because I would have assumed that
the Perl hackers wouldn't have accepted any changes.
I don't see anything deeply wrong with recognizing `configure.gnu'.
It is like recognizing GNUMakefile.
Tom
