Hello Andrew, sorry for the delay. * Andrew Makhorin wrote on Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:47:41PM CET: > I am a maintainer of a GNU project. Until recently I used autoheader > to produce config.h.in. However, for various reasons I decided not to > use autoheader at all, preparing config.h.in manually. Is it correct? You can choose to do so. > If so, is it correct to write > AC_DEFINE([FOO],[1]) > rather than > AC_DEFINE([FOO],[1],[some text]) > in configure.ac? This works ok without autoheader. Sure. > If running autoheader is mandatory, could anyone please explain me why? It is not; but most people choose to use it because it helps keep consistency. If they also need a header for which they can more precisely control its contents (e.g., because that header gets installed) they typically use a second config header for which they provide the input file manually. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
