=== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Charles Wilson wrote: > > > I have already been given a patch to do this, but I am a little > > concerned about implementation. It makes sense to me, to defer to the > > -devel version, but I am concerned about ripple effects... > > > > IMO, if you are libtoolizing (autoconf'ing, automake'ing) a new > > directory that has no existing configure.in, then the suggested > > solutions should be sufficient: > > create a temporary configure.in that has only "AC_REQUIRE(2.52)" > > or > > set path = /usr/autotool/devel/bin > > > > Setting up the wrapper scripts to report one version or the other -- > > with no reason to prefer one over the other, such as a pre-existing > > configure.in file -- is just lying. > > > Just to make it clear -- I am not opposed to applying the patch to > effect this behavior, but I am worried about unintended consequences. > Discussion? There is a problem that isn't addressed: autoscan. Whatever heuristic is appropriate for autoscan should equally apply to an empty directory. I can't think of an appropriate heuristic, but your message "autoscan: Couldn't find configure.ac nor configure.in file run /usr/auto*/bin/autoscan directly" seems reasonable to me. (That is, that the user must explicity choose in this case). Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
