From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:46:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.mak
Message-ID: <E1FvvuX-0002Lr-Nt@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <200606290301.51657.jnareb@gmail.com>

> This is beginning of patch series introducing installation configuration
> using autoconf (and no other autotools) to git. The idea is to generate
> config.mak using ./configure (generated from configure.ac) from
> config.mak.in, so one can use autoconf as an _alternative_ to ordinary
> Makefile, and creating one's own config.mak.

Are you sure this should be named config.mak? From INSTALL:
> You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
> will include them.  Note that config.mak is not distributed;
> the name is reserved for local settings.

So with another filename either include it
- before config.mak: the user may override ./configure options with
  config.mak
- after config.mak: ./configure overrides config.mak
At least do not overwrite config.mak if it exists.