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diff --git a/manual/maint.texi b/manual/maint.texi index 0f4b959815..659ceae011 100644 --- a/manual/maint.texi +++ b/manual/maint.texi @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ This file is a shell script fragment to be run at configuration time. The top-level @file{configure} script uses the shell @code{.} command to read the @file{configure} file in each system-dependent directory chosen, in order. The @file{configure} files are often generated from -@file{configure.in} files using Autoconf. +@file{configure.ac} files using Autoconf. A system-dependent @file{configure} script will usually add things to the shell variables @samp{DEFS} and @samp{config_vars}; see the @@ -329,14 +329,14 @@ shell variable @w{@samp{with_@var{package}}} (with any dashes in just @w{@samp{--with-@var{package}}} (no argument), then it sets @w{@samp{with_@var{package}}} to @samp{yes}. -@item configure.in +@item configure.ac This file is an Autoconf input fragment to be processed into the file @file{configure} in this subdirectory. @xref{Introduction,,, autoconf.info, Autoconf: Generating Automatic Configuration Scripts}, for a description of Autoconf. You should write either @file{configure} -or @file{configure.in}, but not both. The first line of -@file{configure.in} should invoke the @code{m4} macro +or @file{configure.ac}, but not both. The first line of +@file{configure.ac} should invoke the @code{m4} macro @samp{GLIBC_PROVIDES}. This macro does several @code{AC_PROVIDE} calls for Autoconf macros which are used by the top-level @file{configure} script; without this, those macros might be invoked again unnecessarily |