Re: autoconf-2.68b released [beta]

[Olaf Lenz]

Hi!

On 03/02/2012 05:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; 
> if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 
> release, please speak up now.

I want to second Bob Friesenhahn's opinion that it would be nice to keep
at least a .gz release version. The xz-utils are not part of all
standard distributions yet (I can just name the current Sabayon Linux
and openSUSE 11.3), so I would prefer it if a standard tool like autoconf
would not depend on it.

Another issue I have with 2.68b is the dependency on m4 versions 1.4.6 -
1.4.10 or 1.4.16. One of the bad versions is installed on most machines
that I use, therefore I would have to install a more recent version on
all of them, sometimes even manually. Is this really a hard requirement,
or is it possible to circumvent this somehow? What would happen if the
"bad" versions would be used?

Olaf

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Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Lenz
Institut für Computerphysik, Pfaffenwaldring 27, D-70569 Stuttgart
Phone: +49-711-685-63607

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