Re: Regenerating configure using a newer version of autoconf. (issue 598002)

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May 21, 2013, 3:24:53 PM5/21/13

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Why? Do you have another change to configure coming and you want to
minimize the diffs?

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May 21, 2013, 3:45:02 PM5/21/13

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On 2013/05/21 19:24:53, Mark Mentovai wrote:
> Why? Do you have another change to configure coming and you want to
minimize the
> diffs?

FYI, Ubuntu Linux 12.04 comes with Autoconf 2.68. In the rare case where
someone on Linux needs to update the configure file, they'd have to go
out of their way to get a copy of 2.65, since there's no prebuilt
package for that version, or update the configure script with a new
version of autoconf at that point.

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May 21, 2013, 3:48:37 PM5/21/13

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It’s fine if we need to update it, I was just asking what the motivation
was. This file has been generated by different versions in the past
(recently, 2.65, 2.68, and 2.69), and if there was a problem with any
specific version, I wanted to know about it so we could require people
to not use that version to generate configure.

If we do update configure, we should also update the other autotools
files, including aclocal.m4 and everything in the autotools directory.
“autoreconf -i”.

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