Hello John, here's a five-minute review: | Chapter 8 describes the sed utility and how it’s used by your | autoconf-generated configure script to generate a Makefile from a | Makefile.in template. In addition, I’ll show you how you can use the | same technique to extend your own Makefiles (and your automake | Makefile.am files). Good thing you haven't written that chapter yet. Autoconf 2.62 will use awk instead of sed to transform *.in files, for speed. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf