Re: Libtool 1.4.3

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:09 schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> |> >  Making autoconf incompatible with previous versions of itself while
> |> > not upping the major release number at the same time was a pretty bad
> |> > move IMHO.
> |>
> |> Deliberately introducing design incompatibilities simply encourages
> |> people to use other tools.
>
> In my experience almost all problems that occur while moving to autoconf
> 2.5x are outright bugs in the configure.in/aclocal.m4 scripts.

Well, when you call work arounds for bugs in older autoconf version bugs too,
then you may be right, but I still don't call that a good thing. 

Greetings, Stephan