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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> Sorry, Francesco, I forgot to tell you that the RC branch needs
> Autoconf 2.13, and cannot work with a newer Autoconf.  The switch to 
> Autoconf 2.5x was done on the trunk only.

Is there any way to make it compatible with both 2.13 and 2.5x?  Many
of the current GNU/Linux systems comes with 2.5x.  I'm not sure that
every vendor is as considerate as Debian and providing both versions.

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