Re: [e2fsprogs] rename configure.in to configure.ac

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On 08 Jun 2015 10:59, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 05:32:32AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Newer versions of autotools have started warning when using the old
> > configure.in name.
> 
> Note that I ship a version of configure (and keep one checked in to
> git) because I do not trust the autoconf maintainers' ability to
> maintain backwards compatibility, having gotten badly burned in the
> past.  I am currently using autoconf 2.69, and people who try to rerun
> autoconf on some other version of autoconf are venturing into
> unsupported territory.  It may work; it may screw up in amazing ways.
> Some autoconf macro may silently assume that some feature is present
> when it is not, or vice versa.
> 
> And if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.  :-)

that's fine, but it doesn't really matter to this patch -- it should be 
configure.ac and not configure.in.  the version of autoconf you're using 
certainly supports the newer name.
-mike

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