| The patch to add AC_PREREQ to AM_PATH_LISPDIR is necessary not to
| prevent the failures Noah described, but simply to prevent users from
| trying to use the macro with an Autoconf version that is too old and
| does not cause `${datarootdir}' to be defined.
I was merely explaining why aclocal co
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 08:52 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Russ,
>
> * Russ Allbery wrote on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:12:34AM CEST:
> > Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Systems which automatically remember shared library dependencies may
> > > cause problems since the inst
GNU Autoconf test version 2.59c is now available.
This is an alpha release. We aim to generate the next Autoconf release
soon, once the bugs are shaken out and things have stabilized enough.
Of the list of changes since 2.59b below, please take special note of
the GCS-related changes to the dire
Hi Alexandre,
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:54:31AM CEST:
>
> (AC_PREREQ would only prevent downgrading autoconf without
> rerunning automake, while we are discussing about upgrading it
> too.)
The patch to add AC_PREREQ to AM_PATH_LISPDIR is necessary not to
prevent the
Hello Alexandre,
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:54:31AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > [..] aclocal could output some code in
> > aclocal.m4 to ensure that the autoconf version that reads
> > aclocal.m4 is the same as the version that was traced to
> > generate it.
...
> > In case this che
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:54:31AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> Noah:
> | `automake' can generate a Makefile.in that does not fit
> | `configure' if the version of Autoconf it uses to trace
> | `configure.ac' differs from the version used to generate
> | `configure'.
>
> The Autoconf versi
Noah:
| `automake' can generate a Makefile.in that does not fit
| `configure' if the version of Autoconf it uses to trace
| `configure.ac' differs from the version used to generate
| `configure'.
The Autoconf version used by Automake should also be the same
used by aclocal. Maybe aclocal could ou
