Re: Add more check in autoreconf

[Eric Blake]

On 08/16/2012 02:44 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2012-08-16 22:17, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 08/16/2012 02:04 PM, Javier Jardón wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Im working on port GNOME moduels to use autoreconf instead our own
>>> tool, gnome-autogen [1] (they do almost the same,  but gnome-autogen
>>> was created before autoreconf exist)
>>
>> A bit of research shows that you got some facts mixed up.
>>
>> gnome-autogen.sh was created (as autogen.sh) in 2000:
>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/macros2/autogen.sh?id=7d133ecfaf798c274fa0fb978364fe45771fa0ba
> 
> A bit of research shows that you got some facts mixed up. :-)
> I see this, which hints that the GNOME autogen.sh is at least
> from 1998.
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/macros/autogen.sh?id=a25999004d9f3bdd79c50bc92b54c0bf5b73e8d5

Fair enough :)  I found $topdir, and here's the initial commit, still in
1998:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-common/commit/autogen.sh?id=a6b9fea58e85e63e773ffad46db6b69275bd649d

> 
> That is still not 1994, but it is also not the creation of
> the autogen.sh file as the commit mentions that it "has most
> of the guts of $topdir/autogen.sh". However, I'm not able to
> locate $topdir so I dig out when it was actually created.
> 
> Not that it really matters...

Agreed :)  Just a nice show of how easy history trawling is these days
with modern DVCS (can you imagine having this 'friendly discussion' back
in the days of CVS?)

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