Autoconf 2.12.1 or higher: where is it?

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:58:59 EST, N8TM@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/8/98 3:55:47 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>bagnara@di.unipi.it writes:
>
><< I have looked for autoconf version 2.12.1 or higher in the most
> logical places, but I could not find it: even the home page of
> the autoconf maintainer points to version 2.12. >>
>The version in the sourceware.cygnus.com tree reports itself as 2.12.1.  For
>platforms where that version doesn't install correctly, I've simply modified
>the version report of the standard gnu autoconf-2.12.

If you can get away with modifying the version report, then we don't
actually need autoconf 2.12.1 - so why don't we change the prereq line
to accept 2.12 and make people's lives easier?

zw