[PPL-devel] fine-tuning for "configure.ac"

[Roberto Bagnara]

Markus Elfring wrote:
>>> Will any fine-tuning be needed in the configuration script?
>>> http://www.cs.unipr.it/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ppl/ppl.git;a=blob;f=configure.ac;h=cefc30a5fb6fab98dec05c64db50565b25312bfc;hb=HEAD
>>>
>> Not that I know.
> 
> I suggest to consider some updates for your configuration script.
> - How do you think about to move any auxiliary files into a subdirectory?

Which file would you move and why?

> - Would you like to complete any quoting for macro parameters?

What would we gain from this extra quoting?  For example, what is the
advantage of

AC_MSG_RESULT([quick])

over

AC_MSG_RESULT(quick)

?

Your patch seems also to suggest that `dnl' is a better comment
delimiter than `#'.  Is this the case?
Thanks,

    Roberto

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