[Zlib-devel] zlib version 1.2.3.8 available for testing

[Vincent Torri]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> Mark Adler wrote:
>
>> You mean zconf.
>
> yes, of course ;-o
>
>> However I prefer zlib.in.h over zlib.h.in, since the former
>> opens in the correct editor for me.
>
> hmm, cant you just add another fn handling rule to UI ? ;-)
>
>> I don't see a downside to leaving the name as is.
>
> well, it's more obvious, IMHO, that *.in files are input for
> auto-generation and not to be used directly ...

The autoconf manual says explicitely that .in files are processed by 
configure:

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Writing-Autoconf-Input

"for which '.in' means .to be processed by configure."

That's also the reason why they changed configure.in to configure.ac as 
prefered named for the file processed by autoconf.

Vincent Torri