[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Bug report (PR#1375)

[Egbert Hinzen <egbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:35:52AM +0200, Egbert Hinzen wrote:
> > I also tried the newest autoconf (2.53): It does not run.
> >
> > It's docs say there was a major design change after 2.13
> > and include an extra section about upgrading from 2.13.
> >
> > IMHO the script should be updated to become usable for autoconf 2.50+
> > because I don't think it's acceptable for most users to downgrade their
> > autoconf to a "buggy design" version.

> Changing the script for 2.50+ is (major) work. It seem that Per is the
> only one who can make this at the moment. My opinion is that the vast
> majority of the installed versions are 2.13 (for example no Redhat
> version includes the new one). So we are not completely misguided.

I believe you're wrong: 2.13 was published at Jan, 1999. There were 4
newer versions published after it...

> What linux distribution do you have? Or do you have a non-linux OS?

SuSE 8.0 (since last weekend). It includes autoconf 2.52 (which I used
before). This morning I updated my autoconf to 2.53...

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