Hi! On 03/02/2012 05:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; > if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 > release, please speak up now.
I want to second Bob Friesenhahn's opinion that it would be nice to keep at least a .gz release version. The xz-utils are not part of all standard distributions yet (I can just name the current Sabayon Linux and openSUSE 11.3), so I would prefer it if a standard tool like autoconf would not depend on it. Another issue I have with 2.68b is the dependency on m4 versions 1.4.6 - 1.4.10 or 1.4.16. One of the bad versions is installed on most machines that I use, therefore I would have to install a more recent version on all of them, sometimes even manually. Is this really a hard requirement, or is it possible to circumvent this somehow? What would happen if the "bad" versions would be used? Olaf -- Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Lenz Institut für Computerphysik, Pfaffenwaldring 27, D-70569 Stuttgart Phone: +49-711-685-63607
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