Re: autoconf 2.5 patch, and update squid-cache.org from the ports tree.

On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 23:26, David Luyer wrote:
> > I'd like to do this now. AFAICT all the major OS's - linux distribution
> > foo, freeBSD, cygwin .... come with autoconf 2.5x as default, and the
> > current configure.in simply won't play nice as is.
>
> Debian ships with 2.50 and 2.13 launched by a wrapper which checks
> for any hints 2.50 is required, and if none are found defaults to 2.13.
>
> So if you're moving to autoconf 2.50, make sure you include an
> AC_PREREQ(2.50) or similar so the wrapper can work out which autoconf
> version to use (note, AC_PREREQ(2.5) is not acceptable, the check is
> that the first digit is 2 and the second digit string is > 13). It
> checks included files, aclocal, etc so you only need to put it in
> one centrally included place even if running autoconf all over the
> place. And, of course, that means autoconf 2.13 will fail on the
> AC_PREREQ line.

The proposed patch is available at
http://devel.squid-cache.org/projects.html#autoconf-25.

I developed it on sid, so it should be ok for debian :].

Cheers,
Rob