Hello, On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:14:28PM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote: > The autoconf tutorial states that either a configure.ac or a > configure.in can be used initially. What is the difference and why > would you use the configure.ac over the configure.in? the only difference is that configure.in was a wrongly chosen name, so current Autoconf prefers if the file is called configure.ac. (But the name does not have any influence on the function.) > configure.ac didn't work for me, I must be doing something wrong. Seems you have an ancient version of Autoconf, please upgrade to 2.59. Stepan Kasal _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf