Re: Problems with back configure

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 19 Oct 2011, at 07:54, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> On 18.10.2011 19:43, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>> 
>> On 18 Oct 2011, at 16:24, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>> 
>>> I regenerated the configure file yesterday when I added the code to check 
>>> for the Xshape extension. Maybe my autoconf version was to new or buggy. 
>>> Could you or somebody elee try to regenerate that file and see if this 
>>> changes anything?
>> 
>> I guess there *is* a problem with your autoconf.  I regenerated it, tried it 
>> out, and committed the newly regenerated version.
> 
> There are too many changes in this commit to really understand what went 
> wrong with my version. In future I need to have others check the results of 
> an autoconf run on my computer. We probably should check all the autoconf 
> versions between 2.63 and 2.68 to find out which work and which don't, but 
> then it might still be relate to my whole environment and not just to 
> autoconf...

For what it's worth, the autoconf I used was from CentOS-5.7 and identifies 
itself as version 2.63