Re: autoconf 2.50b - concerns

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:   
> >         Owen / Havoc - what are your thoughts on this ? is there interest
> > in RH switching across the board [ what version do you use ] ? are there  
> > some nice RPMS around of this [does rawhide use the recent autoconf bits] 
> > ?
> 
> I thought we had it in rawhide (that's where I got it when I was
> trying to use it), but I'm looking now and don't see it. So someone
> may have decided to take it out. I can ask around and see why.
> 
> > and finaly what impact will this have on parallel builds of old [Gnome  
> > 1.4] software and the platform as a whole ?
> 
> We'd have to fix the old packages too for their next release I'd
> guess...

To make this a little bit more definite - we did temporarily have
autoconf-2.50 in our devel tree, but had all sorts of problems and
backed off.

We'll be moving to it eventually, but I would not expect to see it in
our next release.

Regards,
                                        Owen