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Re: any reason not to enforce the build requirement: m4 >= 1.4.4 ?
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: any reason not to enforce the build requirement: m4 >= 1.4.4 ? |
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Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:18:34 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 2/1/2007 9:37 AM:
>> I spent some time recently tracking down a bug that arose from an autoconf
>> installation built using m4-1.4.2. My testing showed that autoconf built
>> using any version of m4 older than 1.4.4 would have the same problem.
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> What bug was it?
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> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/m4-patches/2006-11/msg00028.html
It was that exact same one, by the looks of that patch.
I checked my notes and do see the problem also affected 1.4.4.
> Maybe it is time to bite the bullet and modify that test into autoconf's
> m4/m4.m4 so that autoconf 2.62 has a hard requirement on m4 1.4.5 or newer?
No "maybe" about it. It's overdue.