Autotools

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 11:30:04AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Is it just me?  The last few times I used the autotools programs, I
> had to redirect input from /dev/null, or they would never finish.
> 
> I mean
> ./configure
> long ago would run by itself.  The same for the others.  No longer.
> At least not for me.
> 
> So, if it's not just me, I'll probably post a bug in the appropriate
> place, but until then I thought I'd find out if other programmers
> using Ubuntu or Xubuntu are seeing this.

I have never seen this and I use the Autotools and their output on a
daily basis.  However, every configure script is different; Autoconf is
a program that generates configure based on an input file - that is,
it's effectively a programming language, so it's fairly meaningless to
talk about a configure script failing without saying which one.

Note that not all scripts that are called "configure" are actually
generated by Autoconf.  The ones with anomalous behaviour like this
generally aren't.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]