From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26521 invoked from network); 8 May 2002 16:02:26 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 May 2002 16:02:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 10863 invoked by alias); 8 May 2002 16:01:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 17099 Received: (qmail 10815 invoked from network); 8 May 2002 16:01:19 -0000 From: Borsenkow Andrej To: "'Zsh hackers list'" Subject: RE: Modules build framework/autoconf-2.13 Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 20:01:06 +0400 Message-ID: <6134254DE87BD411908B00A0C99B044F02E89A7A@mowd019a.mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <1020508154541.ZM7860@candle.brasslantern.com> Importance: Normal > On May 8, 3:56pm, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: > } > } Would it be O.K. to get rid of autoconf 2.13 compatibility? > > Well, I'd rather you didn't, but I'm a throwback to the stone age because > I insist on using this email program I wrote that will stop working if I > upgrade my operating system ... > > Nevertheless there are a lot of RedHat 6.2 systems out there and RedHat > has not seen fit to upgrade the autoconf RPM for it, so you're likely to > generate a lot of "why can't I build zsh?" questions from people who try > to use the latest CVS stuff from sourceforge. > I'd say those who build from sourceforge CVS can just as well install autoconf from GNU tarball ... 2.53a even passed _all_ !!! tests on my system - it is the first time ever. I know your feeling about it which makes me just more reluctant to start ... -andrej