Re: Configure.in migration facility

[Stephan Beal]

On Wednesday 29 August 2001 15:30, John Poltorak wrote:
> I understand that Autoconf v2.50 does not work with a number of older apps
> because it is not backwardly compatible with v2.13.
>
> To avoid needing two versions of Autoconf installed, is there anything
> like a migration facility which would convert old configure.in files to a
> format suitable for v2.50? Or alternatively, will v2.50+ be updated to
> provide backward compatibility?

FYI: one compatibility problem a user of our software pointed out:

AC_OUTPUT( [
blah 
blahblah
dnl blah blah blah
dnl blahblahfoo
blahblahblah
])

Works fine in AC 2.13, but not 2.5. Akim Demaille offered a simple solution: 
remove the 'dnl' lines.

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