It isn't directly related to autoconf. We wanted to share autoconf and other build scripts. That is the *core* reason why the projects are not self-supporting.
But since m4 doesn't have flexible include processing, then we end up with a lot tighter dependency than we would normally have. Cheers, -g On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:52:14PM -0400, Ryan Bloom wrote: > > We got into this mess by using autoconf. Unfortunately, there is nothing > better than Autoconf...yet... :-) > > Ryan > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, David Reid wrote: > > > Huh? Oh, OK I see now. How in the hell did we get ourselves in this mess? If > > these are projects they should be self supporting. I'm really not in favour > > of having a sub directory. Nor do I really want so many copies of these > > things on my machine! >... -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
