On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:01:51PM -0700, Wim Lewis wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 08:07:15PM -0400, Vaclav Haisman via RT wrote: > > Some older (though not too old) autoconfs do not have this macro. I had > > autoconf 2.56 and it doesn't have it. > > Good point. I didn't check AS_HELP_STRING()'s history before using it. > (It would be convenient if the autoconf manual included this information!) > What are peoples' opinions on the relative merits of avoiding this macro > vs. requiring a more recent version of autoconf? It does produce slightly > nicer-looking help strings in configure, but that's a pretty minor > thing.
I'm pretty ambivalent. Supporting older autoconfs isn't a high priority for releases, since people who compile from the tarballs don't need autoconf at all. On the other hand, the advantage of AS_HELP_STRING seems pretty small, as you say. So I think I'd accept either a patch to update the autoconf version requirement, or one to convert back to not using AS_HELP_STRING. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
