Hello Stefano,
* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:58:24PM CEST:
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Bootstrap: let the user choose which autoconf to
> use.
Well, you should change
> +AUTOCONF=${AUTOCONF-autoconf}
to
: ${AUTOCONF=autoconf}
But even then, when developing Automake you will need to be extra
careful to never let autoconf be invoked from the rebuild rules; because
then, it will run plain "autoconf" and not the $AUTOCONF that you set.
So the safe thing to do is to ensure you have the right autoconf early
in $PATH.
The second patch is not ok. The code prior to your patch already allows
the person running bootstrap to set PERL. Changing that from an
absolute file name to a non-absolute one is a bad idea, it breaks
several test setups I have, and I've never had any complaints from
people who move their perl installation.
Cheers,
Ralf
