Re: Autoconf/Automake

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Olivier Galibert wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:02:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> These days, there aren't fifteen different versions of UNIX. There's a 
>> couple, and it's perfectly ok to actually say "fix your damn system and 
>> just install GNU make". It's easier to install GNU make than it is to 
>> install autoconf/automake.
> 
> You should be careful to separate autoconf and automake.  Autoconf is
> not so bad, and you can make clean, maintainable Makefile.in and
> config.h.in files with it, because it uses simple substitution.
[...]
> So, autoconf can be useful.  The rest should die.

Does autoconf generate configure script in POSIX shell, or in bash?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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