Re: AC_PROG_PERL (macro, docs, used in configure.in)

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

Alexandre> On Jan 23, 2001, "Tim Van Holder"
Alexandre> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> BTW - any particular reason we use AC_OUTPUT(...) for our own
>> configure.in, while autoupdate tells the world to use
>> AC_CONFIG_FILES?

Because when I worked on it Automake had no support for it, and still
has none today.  If you move to AC_CONFIG_FILES you'll lose
automatically dist'ed files.  Blee.

Alexandre> Bootstrapping.  It must be possible to generate our
Alexandre> configure script using an older release of autoconf.

Ahem...  Err, this has been dropped long ago...  For a start we are
AC_PREREQuing 2.49c...  But that's a non issue since when Autoconf is
released, its configure will obviously be from a released Autoconf.

Or was the egg before the hen?