Hello, > > from source (there could be virii in a configure script, ya know you mean a real virus, which would infect the autoconf you build? And thus newly generated configure would be identical to the one you checked out? That would be cool! > > -AC_PROG_GREP > > +AC_SUBST(GREP, grep) Unfortunately the answer is that we don't support that kind of bootstrap. When you get an ordinary *.tar.gz with ./configure included, do you try to regenerate it, or do you trust the developers of that tarball? What if their configure.in is not written entirely correctly and doesn't work with current tools? Perhaps it's similar here, you could trust our configure. ;-) But if you want to do the bootstrap yourself, it might be easier to use add AC_PROG_GREP to aclocal.m4 for the bootstrap. HTH, Stepan Kasal _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf