Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: remove code that accommodated RHEL5's old autoreconf

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 9:14 AM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> $ /gnu-inst-autoconf/2.59/bin/autoreconf --help | grep no-recursive
> $ /gnu-inst-autoconf/2.60/bin/autoreconf --help | grep no-recursive
>       --no-recursive       don't rebuild sub-packages
> $ /gnu-inst-autoconf/2.71/bin/autoreconf --help | grep no-recursive
>       --no-recursive       don't rebuild sub-packages
>
> So, old Autoconf versions did not support the --no-recursive option,
> but new versions do.
>
> Your patch claims to "Drop that workaround", but in fact, what it does,
> is to treat *all* autoconf versions as if they were old. It should
> do the opposite: use the option --no-recursive unconditionally.

Thanks for catching that.
Here's a proposed fix:

gnulib-bootstrap-rhel5-v2.patch
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