RE: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

[Tim Van Holder]

> I must admit that this contains all the relevant information, but
> I think it violates the coding standard.  The text following the last
> space and up until the EOL is supposed to be a version string for the
> _program being run_.  I would hazard to say that two versions of a
> package could have different configure scripts generated by the same
> version of Autoconf.  Therefore, according to the GCS:
> 
>     GNU configure (CVS 1.11) 2.50
> 
> and
> 
>     GNU configure (CVS 1.11.1) 2.50
> 
True. But if you apply 'the program being run', then you need a seperate
version for configure, as it is neither autoconf, nor the package,
really.
I guess that is what it boils down to: do we see 'configure' as a) a
program in its own right, b) an inextricable part of a package, or
c) part of autoconf (though included with many other packages).

I suppose b) seems the most logical choice.
So the shortest thing that has all the info and is compliant, would
probably be

        GNU configure 2.50, for CVS 1.11.1

With the one drawback that it more clearly suggests 2.50 is configure's
version number.