Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stepan,

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Sun, May 28, 2006 at 09:46:33PM CEST:
> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 02:51:52PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > ...and then I installed this further patch, to get rid of `grep' again.
> 
> what's wrong with grep?
> I see no reason for the patch.

It will make coreutils fail to configure on AIX with its limited grep.
I see no reason not to use the version that works if I have the choice.

If we decide that it's not worth maintaining such hacks, then I'm fine
with throwing it out after 2.60.  But I want 2.60 out /soon/, and for
that I want what we have to be working in practice, not beautiful in
theory.

Cheers,
Ralf

> >         * lib/autoconf/status.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_FILE): Do not use `grep' on
> >         the output file in the `${datarootdir}' test.