[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.3-cos4

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Lasse Collin <lasse.collin at tukaani.org> schrieb:

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> People want .in to be the last part of the filename, because that's how 
> GNU Autoconf indicates templates. The .in files are processed by the 
> configure script i.e. .in is the last part of the filename.

ACK. I personally dislike autoconf for many reasons, but several
concepts, ie. the naming schemes and parameter syntax aren't 
such bad. IMHO it's an good idea to agree on certain kind of
semi-standards in the OSS world, so it makes a lot of things
easier for the people.

> zlib uses .in files differently than Autoconf. For example, Autoconf 
> uses @REPLACE_ME@ strings in Makefile.in files to indicate parts that 
> need to be modified using the sed command.

Yes, zlib rewrites some #define's, etc.
I'm going to change this in the way that only #define's are in 
the in this file, so we'll probably won't need the template anylonger.


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