Re: Question on AC_PREREQ

2007-12-11 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Noah Misch wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:46:30AM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> I am running Autoconf 2.61a here. I want to add a version >> guard to my configure.in and surprisingly adding >> >>AC_PREREQ(2.61b) >> >> gives an error (from aclocal already) as expected >> but >> >>A

Re: Question on AC_PREREQ

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Sebastian Pipping on 12/11/2007 1:13 AM: > While were talking about AC_PREREQ: I thought maybe requiring > version "2.61a" would be a bad idea if an older version like > "2.60" is enough already, especially with an alpha version. You are

Re: Question on AC_PREREQ

2007-12-11 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, > According to Sebastian Pipping on 12/11/2007 1:13 AM: > > While were talking about AC_PREREQ: I thought maybe requiring > > version "2.61a" would be a bad idea if an older version like > > "2.60" is enough already, especially with an alpha version. I agree that AC_PREREQ should ideally s

Re: Autotools and GPL3

2007-12-11 Thread Karl Berry
Let's just start with GPLv3. Then you are committing to not make a release until the exception is done, which was Ralf's original concern. checked-in version of the source code already says GPLv3. Ah. I didn't know that. True, it would be a drag to go backwards. Well, hopefully the