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Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: debbugs, and a FAQ, for Autotools
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:06:29 -0500

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:17 +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Ralf Hemmecke <address@hidden> writes:
> > Sure. But it is also relevant if one developer adds a macro which is
> > only available in some recent version of automake, say. Another
> > developer might not yet have that automake version.
> 
> It doesn't really seem any worse than _any_ potential tool
> incompatibility problem -- compiler version, library version, etc --
> though...

Exactly.  Actually finding these kinds of errors during development is a
benefit, IMO, as it increases portability.

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