Re: regenerating configure

[Adam Fedor]

On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 07:53 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Adam Fedor wrote:
> > RE: using autoconf version 2.57
> > To any one who changes the configure files in the core libraries (or 
> > any
> > other GNUstep app if there are ones that need it). Please use autoconf
> > version 2.57 to regenerate these files. Older versions, like 2.53 have
> > known bugs that trigger problems in GNUstep libraries. Plus it's also
> > nice to be consistent.
>
> Why don't we just put a line AC_PREREQ(2.57) in the configure.ac 
> files? This should stop anybody with an older version.
Yes, good point.

> It is easy for me tho be clever here, as there was an article on 
> automake in the German computer magazin c't. having read that, I also 
> tried to use autoscan on the gui sources and this pointed to a 
> surprising big amount of potential porting problems in our code. As I 
> really don't have any experiance myself with autoconfig I would 
> apreciate if someone with more background here could take over the 
> task to step through this list. If nobody steps up for this task 
> within the next week, I might do it myself.

I've done that with some other projects of mine.  I'd probably get 
around to it eventually for GNUstep, but maybe not for a few weeks.