Re: Bug-ncurses post from address@hidden requires approval

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:30:11 +0100
> > From: Philipp Thomas <address@hidden>
> > Subject: AC_DIVERT_HELP seemingly missing in newer versions of autoconf.
> > To: address@hidden
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > when I try to run autoreconf to regenerate aclocal.m4 (after having
> > renamed the old aclocal.m4 to acinclude.m4) and configure, I get a error
> > because AC_DIVERT_HELP, used in CF_HELP_MESSAGE doesn't seem to be present
> > in newer versions of autoconf (I'm running 2.61). Anybody able to come up
> > with a fix for this?

No quick fix - ncurses (all of the programs that I work on...) use a 
patched version of autoconf (long story, off topic).  The last resync I 
did for that was with 2.59; looked into it for 2.61 a month or so ago, 
found more urgent things to work on.

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