"Lars J. Aas" wrote:
>
> 1) I've become quite a fan of using the AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR macro, and I
> wouldn't mind if one was set up in Autoconf too. Are there good reasons
> for not setting one up?
>
Don't know.
> 2) We ought to unify the way these macros are named:
>
> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
> AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR
>
> One ought to change and be AU_DEFUN'ed, and sooner rather than later
> IMO (before 2.50). Any opinions on this? Any other such convention-
> breaking names in the package?
I agree that they should be the same format. However, I want to
complain about the name of AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR (the AUX part). This leads
developers and maintainers to choose aux as a directory name and that
isn't portable to all platforms (Primarily Win32). I would like to
lobby a name change from AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR to AC_CONFIG_SUPDIR. The SUP
would be for either SUPplementary or SUPport which I obtained from the
definition of auxiliary.
Earnie.
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