Re: Use of automake & friends vs. just running configure
Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 00:33 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
>> You could also say that it's an ancient version, but there are a lot of
>> programs which uses yet that version. Indeed we have an autoconf2.13
>> pkg for that reason.
> Indeed, a large number of these do actually work quite well with 2.50
> though -- many of those that don't are fixed with autoupdate or a few
> minutes work.
And then there's XEmacs. :) Some people did some amazingly intrusive
things to Autoconf 2.13. After having seen the pain that the GCC folks
are going through, I feel very sorry for the person who ends up converting
the XEmacs build system to Autoconf 2.5x.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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