Re: Confusing/bogus message in config.log

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:29:14PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
: Lars J. Aas writes:
: > : A Gnits dude would probably prefer
: > :
: > : configure (AC_PACKAGE_NAME) AC_PACKAGE_VERSION
: > : generated by GNU Autoconf AC_ACVERSION
: >
: > Or
: >
: > configure (AC_PACKAGE_STRING)
: > generated by GNU Autoconf AC_ACVERSION
: 
: I would agree, but the GNU standards are pretty clear about this.  I think
: the idea was that (e.g.)
: 
: `any_program --version | sed -n '1s/^.* \([^ ][^ ]*\)$/\1/p'`
: 
: should be able to return something useful with any program of a package.

The GNU coding standards also say that the line directly following the
version line should be the copyright statements, so neither of the above
suggestions comply.

  Lars J