Guido Draheim <guidod-2003-@xxxxxx> writes: > btw, http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4698 for another > indication that new-vs-old is still a major pain these days as > distro makers are shipping atleast two versions of the software > and developers need to have some awareness of that. Which should > not be in the first place of course. Debian handles this well with an autosensing wrapper. You have to provide Autoconf 2.13 functionality. If you don't, some significant packages like GCC and XEmacs can't be modified easily. I know that GCC is working on a conversion, slowly. I have no idea if XEmacs is even starting. XEmacs isn't really the fault of the Autoconf maintainers; they dug their hooks pretty deeply into undocumented Autoconf internals, and it's not at all surprising that a significant new release broke their code. (It really should have been called Autoconf 3.0, IMO. But water under the bridge now.) I finally was able to get rid of the last package that needed Autoconf 1 only a year or so ago. -- Russ Allbery (rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
