Dossy wrote:
I'd like to change the required version of autoconf required --
currently, AOLserver configure.in works with autoconf 2.13, but I'd like
to move to configure.ac and autoconf 2.50+.
Does anyone have any issues with this?
Note that the Tcl core made the move to 2.50+ in 8.5 (the dev head).
While I didn't like it at first (autoconf sucks in so many ways, no
matter what version, and 2.50 had a whole new set of oddities), we
have all gotten used to it. 2.50+ is the standard install for any
recent Linux release.
In truth, it actually has more features that could simplify configure
files. However, it does take much longer to run and produces
configure files that are several times the size of ac2.13 versions,
which themselves take longer to run. More checks are made by default
though, so I guess that's the cost of autoconf magic "progress".
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