>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ralf> Am Don, 2002-01-31 um 17.27 schrieb Russ Allbery: [...] >> Why are you lowercasing the package name? For the same reason a leading `GNU ' is stripped: because for most packages this is the way to transform a package name into a tarball name. `GNU Autoconf' => `autoconf' What might confuse you is that AC_INIT's first argument is NOT a tarname, it's the name of a package, as printed in banners test-suites, etc. The issue was that there was no easy way to specify a tarball name when Autoconf guess it wrong. Is there any point in continuing this thread, now that Akim has added a fourth argument for this purpose? [...] Ralf> * All existing automake-based packages will not be affected, because Ralf> automake <= 1.5 requires the old AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE syntax, which Ralf> prevented this issue to show, even if using autoconf >= 2.50. Aside: some people use AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([AC_PACKAGE_TARNAME], [AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]) (this won't work with Automake in --gnits mode, though) [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
