[Autoconf-patches] Re: autoscan repair

[Peter Eisentraut]

Akim Demaille writes:

> Autoscan is a maintainer tool, so we shouldn't be afraid to ask the
> maintainers to update their tools.  OTOH, if current distros such as
> RH still ship an ``old'' Perl, then it's definitely too early for us
> to require a more modern version.

Actually, the real problem is help2man, which fails if it can't execute
the program, making the whole build fail.

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