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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: automake (was --with-dnet option for configure)
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

Hrv> Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:
>> Steve Baur:  don't bother applying Steve Carney's patch - it will be
>> included in my Autoconf2 mega-patch.

Hrv> Whoa!  Excellent -- I like autoconf2.  It is being actively developed,
Hrv> and it works very well.

It's got a lot of good points, but I'm not totally thrilled with it.

Hrv> Have you considered using automake? ;-)

I've *looked* at automake, but I don't think it's ready for XEmacs
yet.  We are not even going to be a completely standard autoconf2
program, which automake mostly assumes.

Martin

