http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4698
Product: autoconf
Component: documentation
Summary: `info autoconf` leads to 2 years old documentation
Product: autoconf
Version: 2.13-17mdk
Platform: PC
URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: P2
Component: documentation
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The autoconf 2.13 is two years old by now, but it still
the default for typing `info autoconf`. This is misleading
and it makes users get WRONG INFORMATION about the
capabilities of autoconf, which in turn makes them turn
TO US on the AUTOCONF MAILINGLISTS with questions that
have been fixed years ago. Cumbersome.
A quick fix would include a PATCH to the documentation that
adds a hint to the newer docs and newer 2.5x package of
autconf. That patch does ALREADY EXIST in the autoconf-2.5x
package, it does currently patch the newer (!!) autoconf
info document to include a hint to the old autoconf pages.
This is, errr, not quite the best thing, it should be the
other way 'round, or just to do it to both autoconf pages.
Action Plan:
- take the autoconf-2.5x info-page patch
- put into autoconf (archaic 2.13) spec
- be happy
For the record, that info-pages patch adds the following
section to the top of the autoconf*.info entry page,
even w/o modification it carries valuable information:
-+-+-+-+- IMPORTANT, PLEASE NOTICE ===> this version is meant to
coexist with autoconf-2.13 (for backwards compatibility); to that end,
the various binaries are actually linked to a script which decides
which version to execute. It tries to be clever and will execute 2.5x if
`configure.ac' is present, or if `configure.in' contains AC_PREREQ and
the value's 3 first letters are stringwise greater than '2.1'. You can
also manually select it by providing the environment variable
WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 set to `1' (use WANT_AUTOCONF_2_1 if you want the
2.13 version). But do not invoke directly autoconf-2.5x or other
sub-utilities with the -2.5x suffix.
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