Autoconfiscation (Was Re: [rt-devel] 2.1.39: Makefile notes)

[Jesse Vincent]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:17:07PM -0400, darren chamberlain wrote:
> * Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com> [2002-10-11 12:43]:
> > > What about getting use of autoconf/automake? 
> > 
> > Autoconf scares me. 
> 
> It does not, however, scare me, at least to the extent that I know it.
> I autoconfiscated the Makefile for 2.0.15pre1; attached it the
> configure.in and Makefile.in that I used.  It worked for my install.
> 
> To use it, do:
> 
>   $ autoconf
>   $ ./configure --help

Ooh. very neat. Is there a way to get configure to pick up defaults
from, say, an existing RT config file? Pure autoconf doesn't really
help in the upgrade case :/

	J

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