I have a VM with RHEL 6.8, because that's what our customers build our software on. And when I change anything in configure.ac, I test it there. Of course, such conservative attitude is unnecessary for open source projects, but supporting four year old autotools looks reasonable. 25.08.2018 19:08, Nicholas Clark пишет: > Not saying this is right or wrong, but as an autoconf user - it can be hard > to know what versions support what features. So if I'm autotoolizing a > package, I would probably require whatever version I had at the time. > > Are there any tools out there that will scan a configure.ac/Makefile.am and > tell me what versions are compatibile? > > -Nick > > On Aug 25, 2018 2:39 AM, "Basin Ilya" <basinilya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> For some reason the authors like to require the latest autotools version >> they have. That's wrong. They should require the lowest supported version. >> >> >> 25.08.2018 10:55, Paul Eggert пишет: >>> Jeffrey Walton wrote: >>>> For the love of Christ, stop it with these useless version numbers. >>> >>> I've never been a fan of that version-number checking either, but this >> is no way to advocate change. >>> >>> If you want the problem fixed, I suggest that you write a patch to the >> Autoconf source code that fixes the problem. The patch should fix the >> documentation too. If you don't have the technical expertise to do all >> that, you can hire someone who does. In the meantime please bear in mind >> that this is a volunteer project and we're stretched thin. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Autoconf mailing list >>> Autoconf@xxxxxxx >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Autoconf mailing list >> Autoconf@xxxxxxx >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf >> > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf > _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
