On Jul 1, 2005, at 7:55 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> Any idea when the next Autoconf will be released?
>
> They won't tell you. I can ask, but since there are fairly large
> changes, I'd bet it'll take quite a while. Maybe one should ask them
> about the possibility of point releases..
Hah. :-)
I can sympathize with that, though -- look how long it's taken us to
get 7.1.2 out. :-\
>>> +: ${ACLOCAL=aclocal}
>>> +: ${AUTOCONF=autoconf}
>>> +: ${AUTOMAKE=automake}
>>> +: ${LIBTOOL=libtool}
>>> +: ${LIBTOOLIZE=libtoolize}
>>> +: ${AUTOHEADER=autoheader}
>>
>> I'm not familiar with this notation -- is it universally sh-friendly,
>> or is it a bash-ism?
>
> This is quite portable. Assignments are nicely explained in
> info Autoconf Assignments
> if you care.
Good enough for me. Thanks!
>> I have no objections to the principle of this patch (I can even apply
>> an analogous patch to Open MPI); I just want to make sure we don't
>> have
>> bash-isms in there.
>
> Hey, much of Libtool is an exercise in portable shell programming.
I kinda figured that, but I thought I'd ask to be sure. :-)
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{+} Jeff Squyres
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