mgetty should use autoconf and automake

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Hi,

Sverre Hvammen Johansen wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> Yes they are, and the configure script generated by autoconf should
> provide default values for these, which can be overridden by options
> to the configure script.

Very bad idea.  This leads invariably to *wrong* settings for many
systems.

(Autoconf cannot *know* where the files are, so you have to go by "it
smells like Linux", which Autoconf isn't really meant to do -- usually it
doesn't go by operating system type, but by really checking for certain
things, like header files, function prototypes, etc., which you can't do
in the case of lock files)

gert

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