Re: [HACKERS] Re: Quick cut at an autoconf tutorial

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> >> 8. There's really no substitute for reading the autoconf manual ;-).
>
> > Sure, didn't even know one existed. Don't know if it is shipped on my
> > machine, and don't know where to look for one.
> > Oh boy, maybe I'll get to use GNU info! Not. Is there a hardcopy or html
> > version somewhere? *sigh*
>
> Picky picky.  The manual comes with the autoconf distribution tarball.
> The master copy is in GNU "texinfo" format, looks like.  I always use
> the GNU-info-format version of it, which gets installed automatically
> by autoconf's install script.  But this is convenient for me because
> I use the One True Editor, Emacs ;-) ;-).  If you don't live in Emacs
> then I agree info format is less than convenient.

    Actually, I just type 'info autoconf' on my machine(s) to read
it...I don't use emacs myself, and don't find that 'info' requires
fore-knowledge of it

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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