Re: stdint problem

[Simon Josefsson]

Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> writes:

> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> You need to upgrade to autoconf 2.61. The signature of AC_COMPUTE_INT has
>> changed between 2.60a and 2.61. (Such a change is normal. There is no
>> promise of an API compatibility for a snapshot version of autoconf.)

I've upgraded, and it works fine now.  Thanks.  I hope it will be 2.61
that goes into the next release..

> For what it's worth, I hadn't realized that when I started
> packaging Autoconf snapshots for Debian.  I'm not sure that I'll
> continue to do so in the future, at least outside of Debian's
> "experimental" section, because it seems to cause actual problems
> for people in practice.

I agree.  Having snapshots be available from experimental would be
useful, though.  Or there could be a 'autoconf-snapshot' package that
never enters testing...

/Simon