Re: Noobie question about doing "src" dirs

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:14:28PM -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> The autoconf tutorial states that either a configure.ac or a 
> configure.in can be used initially.  What is the difference and why 
> would you use the configure.ac over the configure.in?

the only difference is that configure.in was a wrongly chosen name,
so current Autoconf prefers if the file is called configure.ac.
(But the name does not have any influence on the function.)

> configure.ac didn't work for me, I must be doing something wrong.

Seems you have an ancient version of Autoconf, please upgrade to
2.59.

Stepan Kasal