On 08/16/2012 02:44 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2012-08-16 22:17, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 08/16/2012 02:04 PM, Javier Jardón wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Im working on port GNOME moduels to use autoreconf instead our own >>> tool, gnome-autogen [1] (they do almost the same, but gnome-autogen >>> was created before autoreconf exist) >> >> A bit of research shows that you got some facts mixed up. >> >> gnome-autogen.sh was created (as autogen.sh) in 2000: >> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/macros2/autogen.sh?id=7d133ecfaf798c274fa0fb978364fe45771fa0ba > > A bit of research shows that you got some facts mixed up. :-) > I see this, which hints that the GNOME autogen.sh is at least > from 1998. > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/macros/autogen.sh?id=a25999004d9f3bdd79c50bc92b54c0bf5b73e8d5 Fair enough :) I found $topdir, and here's the initial commit, still in 1998: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/autogen.sh?id=a6b9fea58e85e63e773ffad46db6b69275bd649d > > That is still not 1994, but it is also not the creation of > the autogen.sh file as the commit mentions that it "has most > of the guts of $topdir/autogen.sh". However, I'm not able to > locate $topdir so I dig out when it was actually created. > > Not that it really matters... Agreed :) Just a nice show of how easy history trawling is these days with modern DVCS (can you imagine having this 'friendly discussion' back in the days of CVS?) -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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