On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:45:12PM -0500, Bob Jamison wrote:
We need to make certain that autogen.sh still works properly.
Absolutely. :)
But I didn't know that .in was improper. Most projects I have seen, use that instead of .ac .
Yeah, that's the old method. Many project haven't changed because it doesn't break anything. It's just cleaner -- and I keep trying to edit 'configure.ac' only to get an empty file. ;)
Here's the quote from section 3.1 of the autoconf manual:
Previous versions of Autoconf promoted the name `configure.in', which is somewhat ambiguous (the tool needed to process this file is not described by its extension), and introduces a slight confusion with `config.h.in' and so on (for which `.in' means "to be processed by configure"). Using `configure.ac' is now preferred.