Re: [xml] Autotools stuff in libxml2

[Mike Hommey <mh glandium org>]

On Thursday 09 October 2003 16:58, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thursday 09 October 2003 16:21, William M. Brack wrote:
> > I am also a strong supporter of going with the latest and greatest,
> > but Aleksey's point is a good one.  Of course, there must be some
> > limits to how long the library must cater for older versions of the
> > auto* routines.  At the moment, I believe we are trying to at least
> > maintain compatibility with autoconf-2.13 and automake-1.4.
> >
> > Mike, could you save me a little time and let me know which of your
> > requested changes would maintain compatibility within that
> > constraint?
>
> I'll come back to you when I'll have time to take a look into it.

I don't know if that is due to my coexisting autoconf 2.5 and 2.13, but 
autoheader 2.13 complains that it wants a 2.5 version of autoconf with or 
without the patch applied... so it seems to me that the autoconf 2.13 
compatibility is already broken. (also note that using autoreconf2.13 on 
pristine source returns error about missing files that the patched version 
doesn't)
Anyway, the patch doesn't break compatibility with automake 1.4.
And for libtool, it is not supposed to break anything, but Murphy's law could 
be hiding out there ;)

Regards,

Mike

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