Re: Automake 2.50 migration strategy, as implemented
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:09:04PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I am currently uploading the new version of autoconf and
> autoconf2.13. These attempt to automatically select the desired
> version of Autoconf utilities at the time they are run. In my
> simple tests, they work well. We'll see how they do in practice,
> but I suspect that, except for possible minor bugs in the
> wrappers, they will work well there too.
>
> All that autobuilder maintainers, etc., should need to do, is to
> make sure that they install autoconf2.13 as well as the new
> autoconf. This should not be challenging because the new
> autoconf Recommends: autoconf2.13 for now. (I intend to demote
> the recommendation to a suggestion, then remove it, over the next
> year or so, as it gradually becomes less necessary.)
Hi Ben,
most of the comments i have in mind had already been expressed by
Marcus Brinkmann, and much better than i could, so this mail will
be kept small.
Looking for documentation is confusing:
prompt$ autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13
prompt$ info autoconf
[snip] This is edition 2.50, for Autoconf version 2.50.
Did you file bugreports against broken packages?
Because i ran across one of these compilation problems (not related to
autoconf but to libtool), and did not yet file one to prevent
duplication.
Regards
Denis
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