Hi Warren, * Warren Young wrote on Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:30:25PM CEST: > I maintain a package called MySQL++, which uses autoconf. In previous > versions of the library, we used AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, calling the package > 'mysql++'. For the upcoming version of the library, we have switched > over to the newer AC_INIT syntax. > > But now, 'make dist' is creating tarballs called mysql---x.y.z.tar.gz > instead of mysql++-x.y.z.tar.gz. I can see why this is happening in the > configure file, but I don't like it. > > How do we either prevent AC_INIT from turning + signs into - signs when > creating the PACKAGE_TARNAME macro, or override PACKAGE_TARNAME once > it's been defined? Quoting "info Autoconf 'Initializing configure'": | | -- Macro: AC_INIT (PACKAGE, VERSION, [BUG-REPORT], [TARNAME]) So do it like this: AC_INIT([MySQL++], [1.2345], [bug-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx], [mysql++]) Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
