Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx iconv for Solaris

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote:

> Thomas Dickey-san wrote (12/26/08 09:50 PM):
> > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:35:00AM +0900, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center 
> > wrote:
> > > OK, my understanding is you ask more comment in my patch.
> > > Generally speaking, I think the change of configure doesn't need to be 
> > > provided because configure is generated by autoconf.
> > > So I'd like to provide the change of configure.[in|ac] only but autoconf 
> > > is failed below.
> >
> > The comments in aclocal.m4 explain -
> >
> > dnl The autoconf used in Lynx development is GNU autoconf 2.13 or 2.52, 
> > patched
> > dnl by Thomas Dickey.  See your local GNU archives, and this URL:
> > dnl http://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf.html
>
> We Sun always use the latest autoconf because some of the latest applications 
> could depend on the latest autoconf.

aside from occasional testing to check compatibility, I haven't seen
any real motivation to use the latest autoconf (which has some annoyances
such as interfering with re-generating "configure" by just running 
autoconf, increasing the size of the script by a third, and running much 
more slowly ;-)

> I'll install autoconf 2.52 and reply this later.

It does need the patch of course (for instance, to provide the 
section-headers in the "configure --help" message).

I configure/install the different versions of autoconf using a suffix to 
keep them distinct.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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