Thomas E Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> also known as 'dist', it's a year or two older than autoconf, was used
> in elm and a number of other packages whose configure scripts were
> written around 10 years ago.
> (autoconf is easier to read and doesn't require perl, but its builtin
> tests aren't quite as good)
The main reason why the Perl folks continue to use metaconfig rather than
autoconf, apart from the pain involved in changing, is that they like the
interface better (in particular, the interactivity, the ability to easily
override things Configure gets wrong, and the modularity that allows for
hints files).
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
