Re: configure.in fix

[Glenn Morris]

Emanuele Giaquinta wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:31:55PM -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>> You have quite a few changes installed now, and should probably sign
>> papers if you want to contribute more. Let me know if you are willing.
>
> My contributions so far have been almost trivial, do they sum up to a
> significant contribution?

The limit is about 10-15 lines, in total, before papers are needed.
You've got 7 separate changes installed already, plus the one below,
plus another one you just submitted. So even if they are all only 1
line each, it will soon be paperwork time.

>> I know you have another configure.in patch that never (?) got applied.
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01918.html
>> 
>> Is it still needed?
>
> It is needed to detect at configure time the availability of a recent
> enough fontconfig version, as opposed to fail at build time. The
> attached patch should be better.