On 17-Mar-2008, Keith Marshall wrote: | I've recently ported Andries Brouwer's, (now Federico Lucifredi's), | variant of John Eaton's man program, for use with MSYS, under | MS-Windows. That package came with a hand crafted configure script, | which "wasn't worth the effort of autoconfiscating, because its | requirements were so modest". I hope I'm not responsible for that. However, it's been a long time and I can't remember, so it is possible that the bad configure script is derived from something I wrote. It may even be fairly likely, given that my man program was written in 1991 around the same time as autoconf was first written. The most recent copy of the man sources that I have found which predate the time when others started working on it has an autoconf-generated configure script, but I'm not sure that it was ever distributed. I lost interest in maintaining it when another project started to consume all my time... BTW, it seems unfortunate to me that there are now (at least) two separate versions of man based on what I wrote. The man-db sources do include an autoconf-generated configure script. Why not use that version instead? jwe _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
