Re: autoconf vs. stdin [was: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch]

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Hello,

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:38:51AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Why do we even try to support autoconf reading from stdin?

it seems we have to fix *autom4te* to support reading from stdin, as the
feature is needed for aclocal.

As soon as we do it, `autoconf -' will work again.  The fact that this
feature has been broken for 5 years is not any reason for removing it
from the docs.

> Things got a lot simpler when the wrapper script was
> changed to assume that the input file to autoconf is passed by name and is
> seekable.

It was sane change.  But the fact that a wrapper doesn't support a rarely
used feature is not any reason to remove that feature.

Have a nice day,
	Stepan


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