From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Martin Ebourne] Re: Small fix to configure.in in CVS Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:18:01 +0900 Message-ID: <87iri5dyra.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87fyda26xu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161998773 20978 80.91.229.2 (28 Oct 2006 01:26:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 28 03:26:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdcq9-0008La-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:18:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdcq8-0008CV-SI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:18:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdcpw-0008CH-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdcpu-00089G-1n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gdcpt-000898-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.216.5.72] (helo=smtp02.dentaku.gol.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gdcpq-0007mc-Qm; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-96-133.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.96.133] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1Gdcpm-0005AU-3K; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:18:02 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A58092F43; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:18:01 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Chong Yidong System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <87fyda26xu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu\, 26 Oct 2006 15\:49\:49 -0400") Original-Lines: 17 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61262 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > I could see there was no variable top_srcdir, but it did exist as > ac_top_srcdir. I guess it depeneds on the version of autoconf used to > generate the configure script, because more recent versions prefix ac_ > onto vars. Is this really true? src_dir and top_srcdir are some of the most commonly used autoconf variables; renaming them would break vast numbers of configure files (for what gain?!?)... -Miles -- (\(\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute bunny virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread.