Re: who cares about autoconf 2.13? [WAS: README/NEWS]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Peter,

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
>> If you have time, I would be interested to hear confirmation that a
>> 2.13 project (there's plenty in Gnome and Enlightenment) will continue
>> to bootstrap and build correctly with the head of branch-1-5 plus
>> whatever ancient automake and autoconf the maintainer is still using...
> 
> 
> I was wrong, there are AC_PREREQ(2.50) in configure.ac and libtool.m4 on
> branch-1-5. Autoconf 2.13 is not supported.

Okay, cool.  Thanks for checking!

I assume then, that since we have not been inundated with complaints and
patches, no-one wants to use a modern libtool with an ancient autoconf.
Which is all good for us... we needn't worry about 2.13 users getting
upset when they upgrade to libtool-2.0, and so there's no need to put
a warning in the next 1.5.x release to that effect either :-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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