Issue #13946 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler). If there are no side effects of problems then this may be fine. I can't say though since I know next to nothing about the various files used by GNU autoconfigure. ---------------------------------------- Misc #13946: Rename configure.in to configure.ac https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13946#change-66985 * Author: colby (Colby Swandale) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: ---------------------------------------- Hello ruby team! In my quest to learn about Ruby-lang's src i was reading through [autoconf's documentation](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html) and got a bit confused about where the autoconf script was for ruby trunk until i found this paragraph in chapter 3.1: > Previous versions of Autoconf promoted the name configure.in, which is somewhat ambiguous (the tool needed to process this file is not described by its extension), and introduces a slight confusion with config.h.in and so on (for which ¡Æ.in¡Ç means ¡Èto be processed by configure¡É). Using configure.ac is now preferred. trunk is currently using `configure.in` - so i would like to propose we rename `configure.in` to be the preferred `configure.ac`. I think this is good and will help reduce confusion for anyone reading documentation for autoconf. Thank you! ---Files-------------------------------- 0001-rename-configure.in-to-configure.ac.patch (467 Bytes) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: <mailto:ruby-core-request / ruby-lang.org?subject=unsubscribe> <http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>