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Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:31:49 +0200 |
> From: address@hidden (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:52:15 +0200
>
> On Debian woody, both Autoconf 2.13 and Autoconf 2.50 are installed,
> and /usr/bin/autoconf is a script which tries to automagically select
> the right version. However, the magic leaves quite a bit to be
> desired, since all the script does is to search various files
> (aclocal.m4 amongst them) for the AC_PREREQ(...) pattern, and then
> compares the "..." part with 2.13. If the "..." part is greater than
> 2.13, then the real Autoconf 2.50 is invoked, else the real 2.13 is
> invoked.
>
> The problem happens because the less-than-perfect magic finds
> AC_PREREQ even if it is in a comment :-(
Gerd, why do we need that AC_PREREQ in the comment? Can we simply zap
it?
> Does this make the situation clearer?
Yes, thanks.
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, (continued)
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Andreas Schwab, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Miles Bader, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Miles Bader, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Andreas Schwab, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Miles Bader, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Andreas Schwab, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Miles Bader, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/10/19
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Kai Großjohann, 2001/10/18
- Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper,
Eli Zaretskii <=
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Kai Großjohann, 2001/10/19
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Dave Love, 2001/10/25
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/25
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/28
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Paul Eggert, 2001/10/28
Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/10/28