Re: Autoconf version check

2010-10-14 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:55:56 +0100, Dave Shield > said: DS> Having to maintain several versions of autoconf in parallel is DS> something of a pain. I agree it's a pain, though autoconf is such an easy tool to install it's really not *that* bad. What surprises me most is that I think

Re: Autoconf version check

2010-10-14 Thread Dave Shield
On 13 October 2010 23:18, Wes Hardaker wrote: > MF> One big drawback is that AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION was introduced in 2.62 > MF> so any releases with a requirement below that can't use this. > > Yep, that's one of the reasons I went with the other way (at least for > the older branches). > > Your way

Re: Autoconf version check

2010-10-13 Thread Wes Hardaker
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:41:25 +0200, Magnus Fromreide > said: MF> One big drawback is that AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION was introduced in 2.62 MF> so any releases with a requirement below that can't use this. Yep, that's one of the reasons I went with the other way (at least for the older branc

Autoconf version check

2010-10-13 Thread Magnus Fromreide
Is this patch reasonable or just plain stupid? Index: configure.ac === --- configure.ac(revision 19427) +++ configure.ac(working copy) @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.