Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

|> On 18 Oct 2001, Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> 
|> > |> Yes, but if someone does want to regenerate configure, they might be in 
|> > |> trouble, I think.
|> > 
|> > Why?  Autoconf 2.52 is an officially released version.  Those who modify
|> > configure.in must know what they are doing.
|> 
|> I was thinking about the situation described by Kai, where both versions 
|> of Autoconf are installed.  I understand that what you suggested might 
|> cause the wrong version to be chosen.

I don't think so, since Kay's point was that the comment in aclocal.m4
specified AC_PREREQ(2.14) (a version that was never released) which
triggered the use of autoconf 2.5x with Debian.  Putting AC_PREREQ(2.52)
in configure.in (and removing aclocal.m4 at the same time) would just
manifest that.  Since configure.in is already prepared for autoconf 2.5x
there should be no problems doing the switch.

Andreas.

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