Re: Questions: ./config.h.in & ./windows-NT/config.h.in

[Derek Robert Price]

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Conrad T. Pino wrote:

>Hi Derek,
>
>>>Is there a maintenance or synchronization goal?
>>
>>I've given it some thought, but haven't done anything about, at least
>>since some of the GNULIB modules started using AH_VERBATIM.  My
>>thought was that it might be useful to keep a windows-NT/file with a
>>list of a #define XXXX YYY style, then generate the
>>windows-NT/config.h file from that file and the root config.h.in so
>>that these sort of changes would show up automatically, but I hadn't
>>gotten around to it.  The same script should probably warn when macros
>>in the windows-NT list disappear from the root config.h.in.
>
>
>I was thinking along the lines of a Perl script that reads
"./config.h.in"
>to derive "./windows-NT/config.h.in" which is processed per the current
>process to derive "./windows-NT/config.h" file.
>
>The suggestion to drop a step requires modifing the current process but I
>don't know where that occurs.  Can you provide me with a pointer to where
>"./windows-NT/config.h.in" to "./windows-NT/config.h" step is found?


Actually, it shouldn't really matter.  I was thinking at first that,
aesthetically, it might be more pleasing to generate a file with the
version info and then use it in conjunction with the other source file
to generate config.h with the perl script, but, pratically and upon
further consideration, I think it probably makes more sense to leave
the config.h.in ->config.h step where it is since that step can run
without Perl and running the Perl script will need to be disabled
unless --enable-maintainer-mode.

Derek

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