From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101037: * configure.in (AC_PREREQ): Require autoconf 2.66 to stop version churn.
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:07:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxqsk2mwu0h.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveie6kavu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue\, 10 Aug 2010 12\:42\:58 +0200")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> * configure.in (AC_PREREQ): Require autoconf 2.66 to stop version churn.
>
> What means "version churn" and why is it a problem?
When regenerating configure in the past few days 2.65 and 2.66 where
used alternatively a few times. The large diffs generated each time
make it hard to verify that the change did not have unintended
consequences.
> Debian testing still isn't up to 2.66, so I think it's kind of early to
> move away from 2.65.
I had to install 2.66 locally too (replacing 2.65 that I also had
installed locally). It takes about 5 seconds to install, so...
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2010-08-10 10:42 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r101037: * configure.in (AC_PREREQ): Require autoconf 2.66 to stop version churn Stefan Monnier
2010-08-10 12:07 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2010-08-10 13:40 ` Stefan Monnier
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