mgetty should use autoconf and automake

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:20:10 +0200


Hi,

Tim Pushor wrote:
> IMHO, these should not be compile time options. I have been using mgetty for
> a while now, and while admittedly has been working fine for me for quite a
> while and don't have the latest versions, I have to have several binaries
> pre-built (and/or customized and saved .h files) because of the compile time
> options..

Some of them are compile-time options for good reasons (you don't *want*
anybody to mess with the location of the UUCP lock files, they are at a 
fixed place for a given operating system!), others are being "worked
upon".

gert

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