On 28 May 2001, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> But still, let me see if I got it right:
>
> - without the changes, Wget won't compile with Autoconf 2.50
It mostly will, except of a failure in the po subdirectory due to a
missing Makefile.
> - with the changes, Wget won't compile with Autoconf 2.13.
It will, at least in place. Haven't checked building in a separate tree,
which might fail in po again.
> This means that the changes should REQUIRE version 2.50, except that I
> don't have it on my system!
>
> Why did they have to change Autoconf incompatibly???
Autoconf seems to be mostly compatible, except of a few obscure cases,
which were mostly a result of looking at a previous implementation instead
of a documented behaviour.
In wget's case, the problem is a reference to ac_given_srcdir (FYI,
gettext 0.10.38 suffers from the same problem). I think you could discuss
any compatibility problems on the autoconf's mailing list.
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