Re: FYI: Splitting and testing AC_SHELL_DIRNAME

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 04:34:59PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: Tonight, if I have some time, I will separate the AC_SHELL_* macros
: into shell.m4 (or a better name if you have suggestion), and rename
: them as AS_*.  Then acgeneral (or better yet, autoconf.m4) will map
: them to the AC_SHELL_ name.  Unless we decide to keep them as AS_,
: which seems a good idea to me.  In fact, I think it is time to declare
: once for all that all the A._* names are reserved to us (including AM_
: reserved for Automake of course).

I think this is great.  You might also want to declare loud and clear that
people are encouraged to name their own macros <PREFIX>_A._* to get support
from the autoconf infrastructure.  (declare as in document it somewhere)

As for the name of shell.m4, it is the most obvious one the way I see it.

  Lars J