Re: Autoconf 2.50b is now required for GNOME 2

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 11Jul2001 06:53PM (+0200), Martin Baulig wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> since nobody really objected to this and a few people even told
> me to commit my autoconf patches, we now require autoconf 2.50b
> everywhere for GNOME 2.
> 
> You can get this autoconf from either alpha.gnu.org or from
> ftp://master.gnome.org/people/martin/vicious-bootstraps/.
> 


Is that really a good idea? I suggest at the very least also making
things compatible with 2.13, since 2.50 is significantly incompatible
and many other existing packages won't build with 2.50 yet.

In fact, I thought that was the rough consensus on the list here.


Regards,

Maciej