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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap: cannot find package name in configure.ac
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 22:00:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4dc21cb2-b4f5-6152-1c39-6ab85f747df3@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0spzq58.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

On 1/6/21 1:55 PM, Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list wrote:

> I'm using the patch below in gsasl, what do you think?

Thanks, looks good to me.

On 1/6/21 3:54 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:

> And instead of adding yet another way to do the same job, shouldn't the
> existing code better be fixed?  At least it obviously doesn't do what the
> comments above the sed script say (bootstrap:186):

That stuff was written before autoconf --trace, and it's just a hack. 
I'm not sure it's worth spending much time to improve that approach, if 
we have something better now.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-07  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06 21:55 bootstrap: cannot find package name in configure.ac Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2021-01-06 23:54 ` Bernhard Voelker
2021-01-07  6:00 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2021-01-08 10:53   ` Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list

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