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Re: tweaks for autoconf 2.50
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at stanford dot edu>
- Subject: Re: tweaks for autoconf 2.50
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:54:05 -0400
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010523225533.A1792@stanford.edu>
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:55:33PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Autoconf 2.50 came out last week.
Cool. Its homepage still says 2.13 is the latest.
(Like I'm one to talk about out-of-date software homepages. *cough*)
> This patchset corrects several
> places where our configure scripts had ugly hacks that broke. I do
> not introduce any new features; all the scripts still work with the
> old autoconf (I'm verifying this by running a bootstrap having
> regenerated them all with 2.13).
Assuming for discussion purposes that the bootstrap works, is there any
compelling reason to /not/ update the AC_PREREQ lines to require 2.50?
After the 3.0 release? It's something that only affects developers.
Phil
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