On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:56:06AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 08 Jun 2015 10:59, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 05:32:32AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Newer versions of autotools have started warning when using the old
> > > configure.in name.
> >
> > Note that I ship a version of configure (and keep one checked in to
> > git) because I do not trust the autoconf maintainers' ability to
> > maintain backwards compatibility, having gotten badly burned in the
> > past. I am currently using autoconf 2.69, and people who try to rerun
> > autoconf on some other version of autoconf are venturing into
> > unsupported territory. It may work; it may screw up in amazing ways.
> > Some autoconf macro may silently assume that some feature is present
> > when it is not, or vice versa.
> >
> > And if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. :-)
>
> that's fine, but it doesn't really matter to this patch -- it should be
> configure.ac and not configure.in. the version of autoconf you're using
> certainly supports the newer name.
This patch breaks the automatic rebuild of configure if the
configure.ac/configure.in file is modified. I've fixed it up by
adding the necessary change to MCONFIG.in.
- Ted
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