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Re: [Patch, Fortran] Detecting the terminal width
- From: Janus Weil <janus at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: Mikael Morin <mikael dot morin at sfr dot fr>
- Cc: Janne Blomqvist <blomqvist dot janne at gmail dot com>, Manfred Schwarb <manfred99 at gmx dot ch>, Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>, gfortran <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 21:16:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Patch, Fortran] Detecting the terminal width
- References: <CAKwh3qhcgkqHRFDKttq9gpURTgxWBAiC4MQmn0Mft7hC=ado2A at mail dot gmail dot com> <51AA143B dot 7080401 at sfr dot fr>
>> Ok. Unfortunately I'm not much of a autoconf hero (better to say: not
>> at all).
> Any person using autoconf is some of a hero. ;-)
Totally ...
>> I can not test it on my system with --enable-maintainer-mode
>> because I get:
>>
>> configure.ac:2: error: Please use exactly Autoconf 2.64 instead of 2.69.
>>
>> Why on earth does GCC require an old autoconf version?
> There is an answer here:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2011-01/msg00248.html
Yes, I also found this in the meantime.
> The bottom line is:
> GCC versions the generated files, so require exactly one autoconf.
> And I suppose it just hasn't been updated to require the latest one.
Makes sense somehow, although it is pretty inconvenient.
>> New patch attached ...
> Tobias doesn't seem to argue (too much) against it, so OK.
Thanks. Committed as r199585:
http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=199585
Cheers,
Janus