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Re: [PATCHSET] [4/4] Fix various issue in TUI
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: palves at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:54:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] [4/4] Fix various issue in TUI
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> Btw, what is the reason we insist on that particular version of
> Autoconf, and not on "2.64 or later"? It's a pain to have an old
> version installed (already there are packages for which 2.65 is too
> old).
I am not absolutely certain. I have a feeling from past experience
that upgrading to new versions is not necessarily a big deal, but
something that needs to be done with care, as it might not work
with new versions of configure. I know that I accidently used
a newer version of configuring in the past, and got errors, so
it doesn't always work, at least for me.
But other than that, one of my reasons is that we know it works, and
using the exact version also allows you to generate changes that are
directly related to your changes and only your changes - which makes
reviewing the patch for the generated file a little easier.
--
Joel