more humour for the FSF Autoconf page

2009-01-01 Thread Ben Elliston
A few years ago, a friend submitted a Debian bug report against Autoconf because it included `readable' in the permissions mask of the configure script. :-) See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=140837 Ben -- Ben Elliston b...@au.ibm.com Australia Development Lab, IBM

--quiet option not carried through to config.status

2009-01-01 Thread Ben Elliston
and I must remember to append it when reconstructing the configure command line. This may well also apply to other configure options. A bug? Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston b...@au.ibm.com Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: man pages for config.guess and friends

2006-06-19 Thread Ben Elliston
I suggest to move the man pages for config.guess and config.sub from autoconf to the config CVS. May be a good idea, if Ben agrees. I think this can safely wait until after Autoconf 2.60, though, which we'd like to release ASAP. I was not even aware that man pages exist; naturally I