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Re: configure.lineno?
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: configure.lineno? |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:27:17 +0100 |
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>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Reed <address@hidden>
>>> "Eric" == Eric Sunshine <address@hidden>
Eric> Nevertheless, DOS will silently truncate those to
Eric> "config.sta" and "configur", both of which are still
Eric> valid filenames. However, the second period in
Eric> "config.status.lineno" is simply incompatible with DOS
Eric> naming convention which allows only a single period.
Is this file created on 8+3 platforms? For instance I believe
DJGPP uses bash, which supports $LINENO. I suspect there might
be no issue.
Daniel> There is already some precedent for ignoring such
Daniel> restrictions: Autoconf's autoheader will happily create
Daniel> src/config.h.in given an AC_CONFIG_HEADER of
Daniel> src/config.h and no explicit infile.
We should just ensure that users _can_ write a package that
build on such platform. Using config.hin instead of config.h.in
is documented, many people do it.
Daniel> Automake will generate files like
Daniel> PACKAGE-MAJOR.MINOR.tar.gz and
Daniel> PACKAGE-MAJOR.MINOR.tar.bz2 for "make dist" rules.
This seems less important, because IFAICT no one wants to run
`make dist' on a platform where all filenames (starting with
configure) have been truncated. The resulting package would
simply not work on other systems.
[...]
Daniel> the point that Autotools doesn't *really* support
Daniel> strictly-8.3 environments.
IMHO that can justify improvements, not status quo.
Thanks to Richard Dawe, Automake 1.7.3 and Autoconf 2.58
included several changes to improve portability to DJGPP.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
- configure.lineno?, Eric Sunshine, 2004/01/06
- Re: configure.lineno?, Paul Eggert, 2004/01/06
- Re: configure.lineno?, Peter Eisentraut, 2004/01/06
- Re: configure.lineno?, Paul Eggert, 2004/01/06
- Re: configure.lineno?, Eric Sunshine, 2004/01/06
- Re: configure.lineno?, Eric Sunshine, 2004/01/07
- Re: configure.lineno?, Daniel Reed, 2004/01/07
- Re: configure.lineno?, Eric Sunshine, 2004/01/07
- Re: configure.lineno?, Daniel Reed, 2004/01/08
- Re: configure.lineno?,
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <=
- Re: configure.lineno?, Richard Dawe, 2004/01/09
- Re: configure.lineno?, Eric Sunshine, 2004/01/10
Re: configure.lineno?, Eric Sunshine, 2004/01/06