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

2000-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

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

2000-09-11 Thread 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 o

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

2000-09-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:22:24PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > > "Thomas" == Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Thomas> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > >> | | This patch makes autoconf prefer

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

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:22:24PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Thomas" == Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thomas> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > >> | | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure > >> when | configuring su

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

2000-09-11 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Thomas" == Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: >> | | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure >> when | configuring subdirectories; this is usefull if these >> subdirectories also | contain p

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

2000-09-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > | > | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure when > | configuring subdirectories; this is usefull if these subdirectories also > | contain packages not using autoconf. > | > | This patch originates from the G

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

2000-09-11 Thread Akim Demaille
| Hi! | | This patch makes autoconf prefer configure.gnu over configure when | configuring subdirectories; this is usefull if these subdirectories also | contain packages not using autoconf. | | This patch originates from the GeekGadgets project | (http://www.ninemoons.com/GG/). I don't unders