From: David MacKenzie Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 22:30:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: entered into RCS X-Git-Tag: fsf-origin~876 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85a929bce8ddf35ea0ee326c7f1930736ca641bf;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git entered into RCS --- diff --git a/README b/README index e743b457d..2cc58e295 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of m4 macro calls. -Autoconf requires GNU m4. +Autoconf requires GNU m4. The configuration scripts produced by +Autoconf are independent of Autoconf when they are run, so their users +do not need to have Autoconf (or GNU m4). The file INSTALL can be distributed with packages that use Autoconf-generated configure scripts and Makefiles that conform to the @@ -23,11 +25,6 @@ packages' configuration headers or Makefile.in files. You can use the program `autoheader' to automatically creates a configuration header from a `configure.in', based on the information in `acconfig.h'. -Some GNU programs have been released with `configure.in' and -`Makefile.in' files written for pre-1.0 versions of Autoconf. -Most of those files do not work with the current version of Autoconf, -because of changes in the Autoconf macros. - Mail suggestions and bug reports for Autoconf to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. Please include the Autoconf version number, which you can get by running "autoconf --version".