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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: configure{.in,} question
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:43:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v44ocap6jv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1PAJ9q-0002J6-Ol@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon\, 25 Oct 2010 05\:15\:58 -0400")

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> But doing so makes sure everybody can run the configure script, even
> if the version of Autoconf installed on the user's machine has some
> bug that affects Emacs.

If we are aware of such problems, that is a legitimate reason to set
AC_PREREQ in configure.in to avoid those versions of autoconf.
We have done this in the past, although AFAIK the current prereq is
artificially high simply to stop version churn.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-24 17:31 configure{.in,} question Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-24 19:38 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-24 19:56   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-24 20:07     ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25  0:57       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25  8:38         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25 14:43           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25 14:58             ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25 15:41               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-10-25  8:47       ` Julien Danjou
2010-10-25  9:00         ` Andreas Schwab
2010-10-25  9:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-25 16:06           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 18:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-25 18:37               ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-25 19:59                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 19:34               ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-25 16:43           ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2010-10-25 19:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-25 19:13   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-25 19:16     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-25 20:08       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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