On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrew Deason <[email protected]> writes: > >> Running regen.sh can occur on any machine before you build, but it can >> get a bit annoying if you're used to just pulling from git and building >> on systems with older autoconf's. This email serves to publicly notify >> people that this has happened, and to welcome any objections people may >> have. This probably should have been sent out before we made the move to >> require 2.60, but when AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS was first added, I >> didn't realize it was a new autoconf addition. 'Oops' > > I did. > > I strongly support requiring newer versions of Autoconf rather than using > inferior probes or reinventing the wheel, particularly when they're > already nearly four years old. Autoconf is improving significantly in > ways that require one to maintain far less code in each package. If one > absolutely must do development on a very slow-releasing platform with > outdated software, Autoconf is trivial to install (assuming that M4 isn't > so ancient that it can't run Autoconf).
2.60 requires newer than just "not ancient", apparently. I don't care, but it's worth noting. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
