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Re: Problem with --version after compiling autoconf
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Problem with --version after compiling autoconf |
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Wed, 30 May 2018 17:26:25 -0700 |
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On 05/30/2018 05:49 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
more likely, all the way back to Nov 1993 when Francois Pinard
introduced 0rNNN syntax into m4 1.1 (according to NEWS), although I
cannot locate a tarball or version control of m4 that old.
Some old GNU tarballs can be find at funet (Linux's first distributor). And:
http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/m4-1.1.tar.gz
says that the bug in question is indeed in m4 1.1 dated 1993-11-08.
As far as I know, this holds the record for the oldest bug reported in
GNU software so far this year. (Maybe we should give Andy a prize; how
about a plaque inscribed in EBCDIC? :-)