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Re: allow convenient library in subdirectory


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: allow convenient library in subdirectory
Date: 17 Jul 2001 11:57:36 -0600

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

Tim> Fine by me - my main task is to make sure DJGPP is properly
Tim> supported in the packages I maintain DJGPP packages for; and
Tim> since DJGPP supports both forward and backward slashes, I'm
Tim> happy.  A clear note in the docs about this would be welcome
Tim> though.

Ok.  Where in the docs do you think it belongs?

Tim> One thing I would like to see in the first version of automake that
Tim> _requires_ autoconf 2.50 or higher is that bare colons are replaced by
Tim> @address@hidden  This would also require enclosing the relevant
Tim> values (TEXINPUTS, most notably) in double quotes to avoid problems
Tim> if the pathsep is ';'.  My local version of automake already has this
Tim> and has worked OK for months.

We can require 2.50 in automake 1.6.  I agree at that point we should
do this.

Do you have patches ready?  Maybe it is time to make a 1.5 release
branch.

Tom



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