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txr project: configure script identified as "Autoconf" language.
Hi,
The TXR project has a build-configuration script called configure
.
It was written by hand from scratch in the POSIX shell language (specifically to avoid using Autotools, while conforming to a build step convention that everyone understands).
But this script is being reported as an instance of the Autoconf
language.
Firstly, even if we consider Autoconf
to be a language, we should be counting its source code, which is found in files like configure.ac
. We should not be counting its output in the configure
script, which consists of many lines of boiler-plate code generated by machine, let alone reporting it as Autoconf
rather than shell
.
Secondly, projects that do not have tell-tale Autoconf material like files ending in .ac
, or .am
like configure.ac
, Makefile.am
or Makefile.ac
and so on should maybe be not associated with the Autotools at all.
Kaz,
Please see: https://github.com/blackducksw/ohcount
We have open-sourced our lines-of-code counters mainly written in Ruby. The most straightforward way to get proper recognition of various source code is to submit a pull request against that code with the changes that will implement the recognition for the differences in Autoconf files and shell. I suspect there are some forms of recognition which rely mostly on file extension but we have better success when recognizing code by the unique signatures contained within. Let us know how we can better recognize the code that interests you the most.
Thanks!
