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Re: [Lynx-dev] autoconf broken in lynx2.8.8dev.7
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] autoconf broken in lynx2.8.8dev.7 |
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Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:51:00 -0500 |
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
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> >You donât really expect me to try a manual interdiff between
> >these two and the 2.59/2.61 based one I have which integrates
> >an older version of your patches, right?
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> I could make yet-another-resync patch for 2.6x, but haven't seen that
> they improve anything (aside from the version-matching with automake ;-)
more to the point, I've made diff's for the longstanding changes that I
use against 2.61, which work - see ftp directory:
ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf
Mar 16 2007 GNU Compressed autoconf-2.57-20030810.patch.gz 36Kb
Mar 23 2008 GNU Compressed autoconf-2.60-20061014.patch.gz 15Kb
Mar 23 2008 GNU Compressed autoconf-2.61-20080323.patch.gz 22Kb
However, it's been quite a while since I've seen any useful bug-fixes in the
ongoing saga of auto{conf|make}, and some of the feature changes make the newer
versions less useful.
One that immediately comes to mind every time I reflect on it is the refusal of
the autoconf program to regenerate a script - a real nuisance when modifying
autoconf macros.
There are other lovely gems scattered about as well (needless incompatibilies,
insulting warning messages, etc). I should expand on these in a webpage
sometime.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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