I said: > > 2. If the GNU standards stay as-is, the autotools need to make this easy to do, Bruce Korb: > And that is easy to do. Just bundle up the configured substitutions into a > macro a la adding this to Makefile.in: > > WHATEVERINAMEDIT = \ > prefix="@prefix@" \ > [...] > ... > Anyway, usage of WHATEVERINAMEDIT is quite straight forward: > > $(WHATEVERINAMEDIT) $(SHELL) script-du-jour I don't think that is "easy to do" at all, compared to the simplicity of the task. That's a bunch of lines already, and even then it omits the code for script-du-jour, which would add more code. Creating files with substitutions at build time should require exactly ONE simple line in .ac or .am to list the files to be generated. Anything more than one line, like the above, is overly complicated for such a common and trivial task. As a *practical* matter, this means that currently developers have only 2 reasonable choices for this common case: AC_CONFIG_FILES (wrong but works) and AX_CREATE_PKGCONFIG_INFO (less wrong and works). I'll accept invoking a predefined macro as being "one simple line" from the user's point of view, so I'll continue to recommend AX_CREATE_PKGCONFIG_INFO in my tutorial materials until someone comes up with something better. I'd love to see an AC_CONFIG_FILES_BUILD_TIME([filelist...]) or some such. I don't have the time to write that right now, but hopefully you see what I think is wrong with the current situation. And maybe I can convince someone else to write it...! --- David A. Wheeler _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
