Hi Bruce, > >> The second phase is a script 'autogen.sh'. > > I'd like to object to that name. :)
There is no actual collision, because your tool is 'autogen' [1], and this is 'autogen.sh'. Also, since a significant percentage of the users don't have '.' in $PATH, the instructions say to run './autogen.sh'; hence there is no conflict with any program in /usr/bin. But I admit there may be some confusion. > I offered to help Miguel de Icaza with his Gnome project, > he didn't want the help, but did adopt my project's name. Oh, so the similarity between the names is not completely fortuitous. But meanwhile the name has spread; it is now even used in the Linux kernel [2]. I guess it's too late to turn back the clock. "This train has departed", we say in German. > I've even gotten some folks to ask me for help with their > bootstrapping scripts because they were named, "autogen.sh". > So, please, not that. :) You could see it as a business opportunity :) Bruno [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/usb/usbip/autogen.sh?h=v5.18
