Re: m4 error in bootstrap

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

|>     > Sorry, Francesco, I forgot to tell you that the RC branch needs
|>     > Autoconf 2.13, and cannot work with a newer Autoconf.  The switch to 
|>     > Autoconf 2.5x was done on the trunk only.
|> 
|>     Is there any way to make it compatible with both 2.13 and 2.5x?
|> 
|> I agree that would be a good thing to do.  I hesitated to install
|> the new configure.in which requires Autoconf 2.53, but it would be nice
|> to make the old one support both Autoconf versions if that is possible.

The problem is that the macros _AC_VERSION_COMPARE and AC_ACVERSION do not
exist any more in 2.50+, and it is difficult to rewrite the condition so
that it works in both 2.13 and 2.50+.

Andreas.

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