From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10875 invoked by alias); 6 Sep 2013 06:53:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10849 invoked by uid 89); 6 Sep 2013 06:53:12 -0000 Received: from smtp3.Stanford.EDU (HELO smtp.stanford.edu) (171.67.219.83) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 06 Sep 2013 06:53:12 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: smtp.stanford.edu Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id BC3AB105113; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 23:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7CBEF104D60; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 23:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4E1F32F6B4; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 23:53:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Russ Allbery To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, libc-ports@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] rename configure.in to configure.ac In-Reply-To: <1378339628-28867-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:07:08 -0400") References: <1378339628-28867-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 06:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: <8738pia1bg.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 Mike Frysinger writes: > Autoconf has been deprecating configure.in for quite a long time. > Rename all our configure.in and preconfigure.in files to .ac. This is almost certainly perfectly fine, and I haven't looked at context, but I wanted to make sure that someone had noticed it: > diff --git a/configure b/configure > index 2122583..e9c2827 100755 > --- a/configure > +++ b/configure > @@ -5171,7 +5171,7 @@ $as_echo_n "checking whether $AUTOCONF${ACFLAGS:+ }$ACFLAGS works... " >&6; } > if ${libc_cv_autoconf_works+:} false; then : > $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6 > else > - if (cd $srcdir; $AUTOCONF $ACFLAGS configure.in > /dev/null 2>&1); then > + if (cd $srcdir; $AUTOCONF $ACFLAGS configure.ac > /dev/null 2>&1); then > libc_cv_autoconf_works=yes > else > libc_cv_autoconf_works=no > @@ -8801,7 +8801,7 @@ ac_abs_srcdir=$ac_abs_top_srcdir$ac_dir_suffix > ac_sub_configure=$ac_srcdir/configure.gnu > elif test -f "$ac_srcdir/configure"; then > ac_sub_configure=$ac_srcdir/configure > - elif test -f "$ac_srcdir/configure.in"; then > + elif test -f "$ac_srcdir/configure.ac"; then > # This should be Cygnus configure. > ac_sub_configure=$ac_aux_dir/configure > else I believe the renaming of configure.in to configure.ac is specific to Autoconf. Cygnus configure is a different (and older) beast; if anyone is actually still using Cygnus configure, those files would still be named configure.in, not configure.ac. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)