[ruby-core:83046] [Ruby trunk Misc#13946] Rename configure.in to configure.ac

[ruby-core:83046] [Ruby trunk Misc#13946] Rename configure.in to configure.ac

[colby]

Issue #13946 has been reported by colby (Colby Swandale).

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Misc #13946: Rename configure.in to configure.ac
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13946

* Author: colby (Colby Swandale)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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Hello ruby team!

In my quest to learn about Ruby-lang's src i was reading through [autoconf's documentation](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html) and got a bit confused about where the autoconf script was for ruby trunk until i found this paragraph in chapter 3.1:

> Previous versions of Autoconf promoted the name configure.in, which is somewhat ambiguous (the tool needed to process this file is not described by its extension), and introduces a slight confusion with config.h.in and so on (for which ‘.in’ means “to be processed by configure”). Using configure.ac is now preferred. 

trunk is currently using `configure.in` - so i would like to propose we rename `configure.in` to be the preferred `configure.ac`. I think this is good and will help reduce confusion for anyone reading documentation for autoconf.

Thank you!

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0001-rename-configure.in-to-configure.ac.patch (467 Bytes)


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[ruby-core:83058] [Ruby trunk Misc#13946] Rename configure.in to configure.ac

[shevegen]

Issue #13946 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


If there are no side effects of problems then this may be fine. I can't say
though since I know next to nothing about the various files used by GNU 
autoconfigure.

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Misc #13946: Rename configure.in to configure.ac
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13946#change-66985

* Author: colby (Colby Swandale)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
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Hello ruby team!

In my quest to learn about Ruby-lang's src i was reading through [autoconf's documentation](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html) and got a bit confused about where the autoconf script was for ruby trunk until i found this paragraph in chapter 3.1:

> Previous versions of Autoconf promoted the name configure.in, which is somewhat ambiguous (the tool needed to process this file is not described by its extension), and introduces a slight confusion with config.h.in and so on (for which ‘.in’ means “to be processed by configure”). Using configure.ac is now preferred. 

trunk is currently using `configure.in` - so i would like to propose we rename `configure.in` to be the preferred `configure.ac`. I think this is good and will help reduce confusion for anyone reading documentation for autoconf.

Thank you!

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0001-rename-configure.in-to-configure.ac.patch (467 Bytes)


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[ruby-core:83059] Re: [Ruby trunk Misc#13946] Rename configure.in to configure.ac

[Eric Wong]

colby@taplaboratories.com wrote:
> trunk is currently using `configure.in` - so i would like to
> propose we rename `configure.in` to be the preferred
> `configure.ac`. I think this is good and will help reduce
> confusion for anyone reading documentation for autoconf.

Sure, there should be no compatibility problems, even (though I
wish you had researched this yourself :).

We already depend on autoconf 2.67 (released 2010-07-21)
and autoconf itself renamed it's configure.in to configure.ac
way back on 2001-07-17 (commit f0478c4702efe203fc22617966c4e5b934b8a0dc).

So there's no compatibility problems to worry about.

cf.  git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf

[ruby-core:83063] [Ruby trunk Feature#13946] Rename configure.in to configure.ac

[xkernigh]

Issue #13946 has been updated by kernigh (George Koehler).


I had an old Makefile before I pulled this change (rename configure.in to configure.ac). The old Makefile can't find configure.in. The fix is easy: run autoconf and ./configure to get a new Makefile.

The error from an old Makefile looks like:

```
$ make
...
make: don't know how to make ../ruby/configure.in (prerequisite of: ../ruby/configure)
Stop in /home/kernigh/park/ruby-build
```



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Feature #13946: Rename configure.in to configure.ac
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13946#change-67000

* Author: colby (Colby Swandale)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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Hello ruby team!

In my quest to learn about Ruby-lang's src i was reading through [autoconf's documentation](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html) and got a bit confused about where the autoconf script was for ruby trunk until i found this paragraph in chapter 3.1:

> Previous versions of Autoconf promoted the name configure.in, which is somewhat ambiguous (the tool needed to process this file is not described by its extension), and introduces a slight confusion with config.h.in and so on (for which ‘.in’ means “to be processed by configure”). Using configure.ac is now preferred. 

trunk is currently using `configure.in` - so i would like to propose we rename `configure.in` to be the preferred `configure.ac`. I think this is good and will help reduce confusion for anyone reading documentation for autoconf.

Thank you!

---Files--------------------------------
0001-rename-configure.in-to-configure.ac.patch (467 Bytes)


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[ruby-core:83068] [Ruby trunk Feature#13946] Rename configure.in to configure.ac

[nobu]

Issue #13946 has been updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada).


kernigh (George Koehler) wrote:
> I had an old Makefile before I pulled this change (rename configure.in to configure.ac). The old Makefile can't find configure.in. The fix is easy: run autoconf and ./configure to get a new Makefile.

Or run `./config.status && make`.



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Feature #13946: Rename configure.in to configure.ac
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13946#change-67011

* Author: colby (Colby Swandale)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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Hello ruby team!

In my quest to learn about Ruby-lang's src i was reading through [autoconf's documentation](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html) and got a bit confused about where the autoconf script was for ruby trunk until i found this paragraph in chapter 3.1:

> Previous versions of Autoconf promoted the name configure.in, which is somewhat ambiguous (the tool needed to process this file is not described by its extension), and introduces a slight confusion with config.h.in and so on (for which ‘.in’ means “to be processed by configure”). Using configure.ac is now preferred. 

trunk is currently using `configure.in` - so i would like to propose we rename `configure.in` to be the preferred `configure.ac`. I think this is good and will help reduce confusion for anyone reading documentation for autoconf.

Thank you!

---Files--------------------------------
0001-rename-configure.in-to-configure.ac.patch (467 Bytes)


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