Hi James,
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:40:13AM +0000, James Youngman wrote:
> In retrospect it would have saved many emails to this mailing list if
> the error message had indicated explicitly that the bug is in the
> package being configured, not in autoconf. The message could even
> have included a reference to the correct section of the Autoconf
> manual.
current CVS autoconf does it.
> > They have misconfigured the bug report address in AC_INIT, so also tell
> > them to change it to *their* bug report address.
>
> I didn't know about this. It seems to me to be sensible to make that
> argument non-optional if every maintainer should change it.
Well, it's optional, but it doesn't default to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(And doubt it defaulted to bug-autoconf in previous versions.)
The package maintainer has to paste the line
AC_INIT(Autoconf Documentation, 2.59, bug-autoconf@gnu.org)
from the autoconf manual, in order to direct his bug reports to our
black hole. But perhaps the examples should use a non-existent
address, like [EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to make the issue more explicit.
(Moreover, AC_INIT could check for [EMAIL PROTECTED], because you never
know what people can do...)
Have a nice day,
Stepan
