Re: configure syntax issue

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> While patching autoconf to output fewer blank lines, I noticed this suspicious
> construct.  One of my potential autoconf changes is making AC_DEFINE no longer
> start with a blank line.  But that means that coreutils' use of a variable
> assignment on the same line as the AC_DEFINE results in the assignment being
> temporary to the AC_DEFINE command, rather than persistent to subsequent
> commands.  OK to apply?

Sure.  That's obviously the right change.

> Also, when you removed coreutils/ChangeLog from git, you did not also remove
> coreutils/m4/ChangeLog.  This is a bit confusing; are you planning on renaming
> and/or merging m4/ChangeLog into the main generated top-level ChangeLog?

I've been annoyed by that, too.  And the other */ChangeLog files.
I'm thinking of renaming each of them to */ChangeLog.2007.

A nicer approach would be to move (and adjust each file name to
have the appropriate dir prefix) all of the entries from these files:

  build-aux/ChangeLog
  doc/ChangeLog
  lib/ChangeLog
  m4/ChangeLog
  po/ChangeLog

into these top-level ones:

  ChangeLog-2005
  ChangeLog-2006
  ChangeLog-2007
  ChangeLog-2008

Anyone know of a good ChangeLog-merging/sorting tool?