[sr #110416] documentation: ordering of basic macros?

[Zack Weinberg]

Update of sr #110416 (project autoconf):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

There are some sketchy recommendations in the manual (here:
https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.70/html_node/Autoconf-Input-Layout.html
) and I can personally tell you that the only actual _constraints_ on the
macros you listed are that AC_INIT needs to be before AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS needs to be before AC_OUTPUT.  AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR and
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR don't need to be in any particular place; the code they
generate will be shuffled into the proper location in the configure script
regardless.  (I think.  There might be some subtleties I'm missing.)

It would be good to make the manual less sketchy about this, I think.  I dunno
if I'll have time to revise the text anytime soon, though.

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