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Re: Documentation flaw in autoconf
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Documentation flaw in autoconf |
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Sat, 31 May 2008 09:37:10 +0200 |
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Michaël Grünewald <address@hidden> writes:
> Autconf will substitute in Makefile's templates many ``Preset Output
> Variables''. Some values of these variables represents path to directories
> in the file system. The documentation (section 3.3.1)
There is no section 3.3.1 in the autoconf 2.61 documentation.
> does not tell whether these paths are absolute or relative, or if this
> characteristic is unspecified. The documentation should be explicit
> about this issue.
The configure script substitutes exactly what the user has specified via
arguments, using the defaults as displayed by configure --help.
Andreas.
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