mgetty should use autoconf and automake

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Hi,

Russell Nelson wrote:
> Gert Doering writes:
>  > Besides trivial things (path names), most of the compile time
>  > configuration issues for mgetty are things that a program just cannot
>  > determine automatically, 'cause they are "policy" options.
> 
> Then don't do the configuration at compile time.  I much prefer this:
> 
> compile;
> install;
> do tweak; until working
> 
> over this:
> 
> do tweak; compile; install; until working

I'm working on that.  For example, most things that are set in policy.h
can already be run-time configured (except flow control, which is dumb,
but a bit hairy to cleanly integrate).  FAX_SEND_IGNORE_CARRIER has
already disappeared from policy.h in 1.1.16.

I don't want to make the lock file paths run-time configurable, though.
Too much potential for "breakages".

gert
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