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Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released |
Date: |
25 Jul 2001 09:12:51 +0200 |
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| To work around intractable problems like that, perhaps you could use
| code that looks like this:
|
| ifdef([m4_ifdef], [
| echo autoconf 2.50 or newer
| ], [
| echo autoconf 2.13 or older
| ])
|
| (I was a bit surprised that this worked -- isn't 2.5x supposed to
| rename `ifdef'?)
M4sugar disables them, but autoconf.m4 reinstalls them: leaving them
undefined would have been a good means for me to get fired.
| I'd hate to have to resort to that, but it might be better than
| sticking with 2.13 only.
|
|
| > One problem now is that 2.5x creates configure from old, 2.1x style
| > configure.in without errors, implying that they work, while in fact
| > they don't.
|
| That's a bit too strong, as it worked for me. It depends on the
| configure.in file. The question is whether it's relatively easy to
| write configure.in files that work with both 2.1x and 2.5x.
It can be badly tricky when you use Autoconf internals, but I agree
with Paul: as long you as you stay where you are expected to be, it works.
- Autoconf 2.52 documentation nit with (exit 1); exit, (continued)
- Autoconf 2.52 documentation nit with (exit 1); exit, Paul Eggert, 2001/07/18
- Message not available
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Akim Demaille, 2001/07/24
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Paul Eggert, 2001/07/24
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Lars Hecking, 2001/07/24
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Paul Eggert, 2001/07/24
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Ralf Corsepius, 2001/07/24
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Paul Eggert, 2001/07/24
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Thomas Dickey, 2001/07/25
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Ralf Corsepius, 2001/07/25
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Vaclav Barta, 2001/07/24
Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Frédéric L . W . Meunier, 2001/07/18
Re: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Frédéric L . W . Meunier, 2001/07/19
RE: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Bernard Dautrevaux, 2001/07/25
RE: Autoconf 2.52 is released, Bernard Dautrevaux, 2001/07/27