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Re: Why autoconf 2.13?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: fnf at ninemoons dot com
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:41:03 -0400
- Subject: Re: Why autoconf 2.13?
- References: <200204110039.g3B0dCT03033@fred.ninemoons.com>
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:39:12PM -0700, Fred Fish wrote:
> Is there some reason that gdb is using a 3 year old version of
> autoconf instead of the latest official FSF release (2.53 I think)?
>
> -Fred
Because all the rest of sourceware is. Every so often there are noises
made about moving forward, but 2.53 and 2.13 aren't even mostly
compatible in practice.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer