Re: A better autogen.sh

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:58:30 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> On 03/15/2011 03:09 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> > I cannot remove src/config.in because the MS Windows
> > build uses it IIRC.
> 
> MS-DOS, I think.

Yes, the MS-DOS port edits config.in into config.h.

> But this should not be a problem, as we can move
> src/config.in to msdos/config.in and the MS-DOS build can use
> msdos/config.in instead.  msdos/config.in can start off being a copy
> of the old src/config.in but can be maintained by hand, as needed.

What would it take to maintain it by hand?

> This would lessen the need for tight coupling between the mainline and
> the DOS version.

What "tight coupling"?

> If we can't do something like this, then I don't see the point of
> removing 'configure' from the repository.  'configure' and
> src/config.in must be kept in sync, and it'd be asking for trouble if
> one is in the repository and the other is not.

autogen.sh could begin by removing config.in.