On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Rasmus Lerdorf on 11/28/2009 6:42 AM:
Basically the diversions are there to organize the phases of the checks.
From
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/configure.in?view=markup
## Diversion 1 is the autoconf + automake setup phase. We also
## set the PHP version, deal with platform-specific compile
## options and check for the basic compile tools.
Here's a thought. I'm not sure whether the divert's were necessary in
autoconf 2.13 (that is so old that it pre-dates my involvement with
2.13 uses diverts for help-messages, etc.
2.5x added more, later as part of duplicating the text with/without the
--enable/--disable stuff.
For more recent changes, one would assume you knew offhand the history.
autoconf, and I have no interest in trying to make it work). But, on the
that comment doesn't sound as if you looked at 2.13 before answering.
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