* Thomas Dickey wrote on Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:26:58PM CET: > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Eric Blake wrote: > > > >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. We looked at a PHP package and its diversion usage for its toplevel configure script with Autoconf 2.13 when a bug with PHP and newer Autoconf was last reported, within the last couple of weeks, on the bug-autoconf list IIRC, and when it was first reported, several months ago. What I could find there was that removing the diverts was mostly a no-op (except for configure line numbers changing, and some comments). But I haven't looked at the exact PHP version discussed in this thread now. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
