Re: [patch #4237] Fix libltdl use of AC_LIST_HEADERS for latest autoconf 2.59c

[Peter O'Gorman]

Richard Moseley wrote:
> On Thursday 28 July 2005 05:26, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
> I have just looked at the required version of autoconf and it states that 
> 2.59c is required since the configure.ac makes use of the macro 
> AS_HELP_STRING which is not present in earlier versions. If you need to 
> support both old and new then I could alter the patch to perform the check on 
> the new macro first and then fall back to the old one.

Our configure.ac has AC_PREREQ(2.59), not 2.59c. Not that this is 
necessarily telling the truth, libtool.m4 has AC_PREREQ(2.58) and I doubt 
that it works with 2.58 :(

Please submit a patch that checks both (to this list), also add a ChangeLog 
entry.

Thank you,
Peter