> In any case, since I figure it will be a big problem in the future, and
> other unixes may adopt a similar strategy, I decided to solve it "the
> right way."  I modified autoconf-1.7 to contain two new tests, and
> modified the relevant files in emacs-19.22 to make everything work
> properly.

that's the correct thing to do.

porters should get used to the "const" thang; 4.4 does it too,
and, slowly, people are porting things to 4.4...



chris

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