Re: Support for configure.ac

[Lars Hecking]

> Could you please run
> 
>         diff automake.in automake
> 
> and see if it helps you understanding what I'm trying to say?  I agree
> I'm not clear, and I believe the diff will be much clearer than I am.

$ diff -u automake.in automake
--- automake.in Wed Jan 17 06:30:29 2001
+++ automake    Thu Jan 18 13:46:25 2001
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
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+#!/bin/perl
 # -*- perl -*-
-# @configure_input@
+# Generated automatically from automake.in by configure.
 
-eval 'exec @PERL@ -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
+eval 'exec /bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
     if 0;
 
 # automake - create Makefile.in from Makefile.am
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@
 
 # Parameters set by configure.  Not to be changed.  NOTE: assign
 # VERSION as string so that eg version 0.30 will print correctly.
-$VERSION = "@VERSION@";
-$PACKAGE = "@PACKAGE@";
-$prefix = "@prefix@";
-$am_dir = "@datadir@/@PACKAGE@";
+$VERSION = "1.4c";
+$PACKAGE = "automake";
+$prefix = "/usr/local";
+$am_dir = "${prefix}/share/automake";
 
 # String constants.
 $IGNORE_PATTERN = "^##([^#].*)?\$";