Re: [Lynx-dev] DOS / PDCurses patch for dev.17

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > > One other thought - aclocal.m4 seems to be misnamed. This can't
> > > be derived from other macros in the code and so should be named
> > > acinclude.m4, with the name aclocal.m4 being used for a wrapper around
> > > it.
> >
> > no - that's a detail of "recent" autoconf.  aclocal.m4 works fine (unless
> > of course one uses automake).
>
>
> What I meant was that if anyone tries to reconfigure lynx and runs
> "aclocal", it will clobber the "aclocal.m4" file. If you rename it to
> "acinclude.m4", then running "aclocal" doesn't do any harm. Now anyone
> doing that would have to re-extract "aclocal.m4" from the source code
> to recover.
>
> I am not sure that I understand the comment about automake. I have
> never seen a "makefile.am" for lynx. Has anyone tried to get automake
> to work with lynx? Why would you want to?

aclocal is an automake script, not an autoconf script.  Of course running 
aclocal overwrites aclocal.m4 - the people who did that weren't concerned 
about compatibility.  Prior to the hacking (in the normal English sense) 
on autoconf to adapt it to automake, autoconf always used aclocal.m4

(I haven't found any _good_ reason to use any of that).

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