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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:05:10 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Cc:        drosih@rpi.edu, ade@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switch to newer AUTOCONF, and fixing ports
Message-ID:  <20011025190510.E4609@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200110250527.WAA14597@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:27:38PM -0700
References:  <200110242107.OAA09339@windsor.research.att.com> <20011024205654.E3080@FreeBSD.org> <p05101010b7fd2df7277b@[128.113.24.47]> <200110250527.WAA14597@windsor.research.att.com>

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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:27:38PM -0700, Bill Fenner wrote:
> Don't forget that this 33% failure rate will affect people who use
> FreeBSD to develop other software too.  e.g. tcpdump, libpcap, tcpslice,
> all fail either autoheader or autoconf with 2.52.  It's also non-obvious
> in some circumstances how to write autoconf scripts that work both with
> 2.13 and 2.52.

I do not thing being able to write scripts that work with either version
is a goal the autoconf developers have put forward.  A project has to
settle on one version and have all its developers use that version.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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