[Bug 470703] Review Request: links - text mode browser with graphics

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--- Comment #54 from Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>  2009-04-14 16:01:25 EDT ---
"b) 2.13 is REALLY old. Which platform does really need it these days, which
wouldn't have the later one?"

I don't know. That is exactly the problem that it is impossible to check all
the systems. Links runs on many systems that I have no longer access to (BeOS,
AtheOS) or systems that I had never access to (RiscOS, AIX, Playstation,
someone even run it on some Satellite receiver with Linux). Someone even found
an old SunOS system without memmove, strstr or other, so Links contains
definitions of these functions.

So I don't upgrade the autoconf version. There is no benefit from doing it and
it might break systems silently.

BTW. do the autoconf developers have some QA test farm? I.e. a museum of old
computers or emulators and testing the autoconf-generated script on all of
them? I know that the configure script is supposed to run even on UnixV7 on
PDP-11, the question is just how often someone tries it.

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