RE: change ac_ext (was: MSYS+MSVC for libtool branch-2-0, take 7)

[Peter Ekberg]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Noah, Peter,
> 
> * Noah Misch wrote on Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:51:48AM CEST:
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:53:14PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Peter Ekberg wrote on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:37:47AM CEST:
> > 
> *snip*
> > > > So, I made this dirty change:
> > > > ac_ext=cpp
> > > > instead of
> > > > ac_ext=cc
> > 
> > > Still, we should think of changing ac_ext so it works out 
> of the box.
> > > Doesn't this need a patch against Autoconf?
> > 
> > CVS Autoconf uses `.cpp' as of 2005-05-05.
> 
> I remembered there was discussion about it, but I wrongly 
> thought it had
> been rejected at that time for some reason.  Thanks for reminding me!
> I've reread that report now, and given this note[1] I'm confident this
> is the right thing to do.
> 
> I've applied this change separately to all three branches (hope you
> don't mind I did that for you :).

Excellent, thanks!

Cheers,
Peter