Re: ac macros and ac releases

[Thomas Porschberg]

Hi Ralf,

thanks for your instructions.

Just a thought:
How about collect this information in a separate file
and extend autoconf with an option --min-required-version
which outputs the minimal required version for putting
in AC_PREREQ ?

Thomas

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:27:27AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> * Thomas Porschberg wrote on Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:35:13AM CET:
> > 
> > how can I find out when a certain autoconf macro was
> > introduced by autoconf ?
> 
> Here's what I do to find out, in decreasing order of preference:
> Go to the top source dir of autoconf (either from a tarball, or CVS).
> 
> 1) Search for macro name in `NEWS'.
> 2) Search for macro name in `ChangeLog*'.
> 3) Search for macro name in `lib/*',
>    then try to track the same thingy down in older Autoconf release
>    tarballs.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 

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