FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

Wes Hardaker wjhns174 at hardakers.net
Tue May 6 19:15:25 UTC 2008


>>>>> On Tue, 6 May 2008 18:56:49 +0300, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> said:

VS> Not really; only those who change things that require autoconf to be
VS> re-run.  The generated "configure" for 21.4 is not only in the dist
VS> tarballs, but also in hg.

Yep.  My only point was that developers need to be able to call older
autoconfs to work on a package.

(the number of times I've had to hack configure.in in order to get a
package to build on a modern system is more than the number of fingers I
own)
-- 
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 and much more difficult to find."  -- Terry Pratchett




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