Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >>>>> "Hal" == Duston, Hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| Hal> I am setting my package up with automake/autoconf, and want to
| Hal> provide gnu getopt if it is not available. I noticed
| Hal> AC_REPLACE_GNU_GETOPT in the info file, but it doesn't seem to be
| Hal> completely implemented. It is in automake, and the info file,
| Hal> but nowhere else I could see. Is this functionality going away?
| Hal> How can I properly do what I want to do? I don't know perl, so I
| Hal> am somewhat limited in my ability to read the source.
|
| This stuff you found is sort of a relic from the old days, when
| automake was more or less used only by the Gnits people.
| AC_REPLACE_GNU_GETOPT was never in automake, as I recall.
| You just had to know where to get it :-(
| Perhaps Jim has a copy. Jim?
I don't have a copy in *utils.
IMHO, it's totally obsolete/unnecessary, now.
Here's what I wrote in late 1996 (now it's in fileutils/ChangeLog-1997):
* configure.in (AC_REPLACE_GNU_GETOPT): Remove it -- it's not
necessary.
Most packages simply compile getopt.c and getopt1.c unconditionally.
