Julian Foad writes:
>
>Ah, that's good.  Thanks.  It works.  I have now found a 
>proper description of the situation in this announcement of 
>the combined (new and old) version:
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg00100.html

Ah -- good I had seen this but didn't have a link handy

>So there are two ways to fix our problem:
>
>1. Fix the "'=' before '+='" to make our files compatible with 
>both old and new versions.  This seems like a good idea anyway 
>if it can be done in a sensible way (and I don't know if it can).

This is approach PLib took.

>2. Add "AC_PREREQ(2.13)" at the top of SimGear/configure.in 
>and FlightGear/configure.in.  This should cause the very new 
>wrapper scripts to use the old versions of the autotools.  But 
>will this work on older versions like 2.10?  If we put 
>"AC_PREREQ(1.0)" would that work on V2.13 and some lower 
>versions as well?

If we do this we should use the lowest version # that will work

Cheers

Norman




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