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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-07-08 21:52:49 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-07-08 21:52:49 -0700
commitc4444d16dcc6b1cf2ac9e2c0bb20e3f5a54bdea1 (patch)
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downloademacs-c4444d16dcc6b1cf2ac9e2c0bb20e3f5a54bdea1.tar.gz
Rename configure.in to configure.ac.
Fixes: debbugs:11603
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@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ oddities of your processor and operating system. It creates the file
process of building and installing Emacs. See INSTALL for more
detailed information.
-The file `configure.in' is the input used by the autoconf program to
+The file `configure.ac' is the input used by the autoconf program to
construct the `configure' script. Since Emacs has some configuration
requirements that autoconf can't meet directly, and for historical
-reasons, `configure.in' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
+reasons, `configure.ac' uses an unholy marriage of custom-baked
configuration code and autoconf macros. If you want to rebuild
-`configure' from `configure.in', you will need to install a recent
+`configure' from `configure.ac', you will need to install a recent
version of autoconf and GNU m4.
The file `Makefile.in' is a template used by `configure' to create