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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 99428

Are "configure" and "config.status" processes or input files?

In the flowchart of autoconf and automake from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automake , are "configure" and "config.status" processes or input files? Their representations are confusing to me, according to the legend in the bottom right corner.

Thanks.

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Upvotes: 4

Views: 1032

Answers (1)

ndim
ndim

Reputation: 37807

This diagram depicts files as a rectangle shape, and processes as elliptical shapes.

As configure and config.status are files which are generated, they have some straight lines from a rectangle around them.

And as configure and config.status are also programs which are run, they are also process names and thus contain some elliptical (here: circular) shape around it at the same time.

Upvotes: 2

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