Re: Building fails on Debian woody because of stupid autoconf wrapper

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:52:15 +0200
> 
> On Debian woody, both Autoconf 2.13 and Autoconf 2.50 are installed,
> and /usr/bin/autoconf is a script which tries to automagically select
> the right version.  However, the magic leaves quite a bit to be
> desired, since all the script does is to search various files
> (aclocal.m4 amongst them) for the AC_PREREQ(...) pattern, and then
> compares the "..." part with 2.13.  If the "..." part is greater than
> 2.13, then the real Autoconf 2.50 is invoked, else the real 2.13 is
> invoked.
> 
> The problem happens because the less-than-perfect magic finds
> AC_PREREQ even if it is in a comment :-(

Gerd, why do we need that AC_PREREQ in the comment?  Can we simply zap
it?

> Does this make the situation clearer?

Yes, thanks.