Re: Changing the name of the PACKAGE at configure time

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Tom> If you look you'll find that gcc and emacs are basically the only
Tom> GNU tools that do this. This feature isn't specified by the GNU
Tom> standards, and wasn't in wide use as I wrote automake. So there
Tom> didn't seem to be much reason to add it.

That's what I suspected.

Tom> We could add it, but it doesn't seem that useful in general.
Tom> Plus, you can work around it in Makefile.am.

Agreed. Thank you very much for the explanations.

Tom> OTOH, if somebody sent a clean patch to implement it I might
Tom> check it in.

I suspect that my automake/perl/whatever skill are not up to the task :)

JMatc