From: nobu@... Date: 2017-09-30T22:04:01+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:83068] [Ruby trunk Feature#13946] Rename configure.in to configure.ac 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`. ---------------------------------------- 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: ---------------------------------------- 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) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: <mailto:ruby-core-request@ruby-lang.org?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>