On 19-08-26 19:55, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: | On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Luke Mewburn wrote: | >I notice that autoconf generating configure, and automake generating | >Makefile.in both store the basename of the source file in the comments. | > | >Currently I'm using the following to simulate this in testsuite.at | >after AT_INIT(): | > m4_cleardivert([HEADER-COMMENT])dnl | > m4_divert_text([HEADER-COMMENT],[dnl | > @%:@ Generated from m4_bpatsubst(__file__,[^.*/\(.*\)],[[\1]]) by m4_PACKAGE_STRING])dnl | > | >I think that AT_INIT() should do this by default. | > | >If this is a good idea, I'll consider submitting a patch for AT_INIT() | >in autoconf. | | I think that this falls into the current trend that reproducible | builds are a good thing. Anything which normalizes the output | (even for temporary/transient files) seems like a good idea. The | only exception is if it is necessary to know the origin and it is | not intuitively obvious.
I've sent a patch to autoconf-patches. Should be trivial enough to include in the next release.
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