Subject: Re: autoconf
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/20/2001 11:31:49
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:20:22PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

 > We've got autoconf 2.13 in pkgsrc -- the latest is 2.52. Is there a
 > reason we haven't updated? I ask because subversion needs 2.50 or better.

Because 2.5x isn't backwards compatible with packages that use 2.13.  It
caused no end of problems with pkgsrc.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>