On 03/08/2010 12:12 PM, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to understand the motivation for renaming configure.in
to configure.ac. If I remember correctly it was related to the
fact that ./config.status or whoever else processes .in files.
The reason is suffix rules:
*.ac's are processed by "autoconf" (written in the "autoconf-language")
*.in's are arbitrarily formated, arbitrarily formated files.
> Is the renaming configure.in to configure.ac cosmetic only
No (cf. above)
> and
> is it safe to keep configure.in in old projects/branches?
No, you should rename them. Keeping configure.in's doesn't make no sense
at all.
Ralf
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