Re: devel platforms without autoconf 2.53

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 21:55, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> You can also move your development branch to be a branch from autoconf-25.
> The drawback is that changes from the main branch will take longer to
> propagate down into your branch (must first be merged into the
> autoconf-2.5 branch)

I'm not planning on updating autoconf-25 very often (only when it no
longer applies to HEAD). So unless someone else wants to update
autoconf-25 regularly, I wouldn't make any branch depend on it.

Rob