Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * 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. Removing the diverts and adding AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER after the AC_INIT call does fix things for PHP in recent autoconfs. My main issue was trying to support both. The next major release will drop autoconf-2.13 support, but unfortunately I can't do that in a minor release. -Rasmus _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
