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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Martin Ebourne] Re: Small fix to configure.in in CVS
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:18:01 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iri5dyra.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fyda26xu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu\, 26 Oct 2006 15\:49\:49 -0400")

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> 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

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-28  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-26 19:49 [Martin Ebourne] Re: Small fix to configure.in in CVS Chong Yidong
2006-10-26 20:54 ` Yidong Chong
2006-10-27  9:10 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-28  1:18 ` Miles Bader [this message]

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