Re: devel platforms without autoconf 2.53

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 20:29, Guido Serassio wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Il 11.46 15/08/2002 Robert Collins ha scritto:
> >Who here is using a development platform that does not have *easy*
> >access to autoconf 2.53?
> >
> >I'm asking because it would be nice to fully flush the autoconf-25
> >branch to HEAD, but only if it won't cause trouble for anyone.
>
> For me is OK, now I have the opposite problem with AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS on
> all my test platforms (Sparc Solaris, Cygwin and Alpha Linux).

Here's a useful trick:

Apply the autoconf-25 patch to your working dirs and bootstrap. That
gives you complete autoconf feature use.

Before committing, patch -R -p1 the autoconf-25 patch against your
working dir. That should (nearly always) backout neatly (maybe with a
little fuzz).

Cheers,
Rob