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

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 25 Oct 2001, Dave Love wrote:

> >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  EZ> Kai, I'd like to fix that for those who have the previous version
>  EZ> of Debian.
> 
> Forget the _previous_ version.  The _current_ version of Debian has
> only autoconf 2.13.

The version I called ``previous'' is what you call ``current''.  By 
``previous'' I meant the one where the change Debian people did after 
Kai's bug report does not exist.

> Kai is using an unreleased version under which I
> currently can't even compile and link Emacs.

Obviously, Kai succeeded.

> For what it's worth, I did the relevant configurey -- in consultation
> with Paul Eggert, at least -- and I agree with Andreas, as usual.  You
> should remove aclocal.m4 and use the (enhanced?) macros from autoconf
> 2.52.

Andreas already did that on the development trunk: aclocal.m4 is gone, 
and Autoconf 2.52 is used.