William Pursell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Joel J. Adamson wrote:
> > Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >> If you don't need to work with Autoconf < 2.62, I suggest you add an
> >>   AC_PREREQ([2.62])
> > 
> > I had it, and then I discovered that the Beowulf cluster (emerald) at
> > the university here has version 2.59.
> 
> I don't understand how that's an issue.  If you have write permission
> on a directory on the box in which you are doing development (and I
> can't see how one could do anything that would be called 'development'
> without it), then you can install modern autoconf and use it.

That's a good point; I hadn't thought about it that (remarkably logical)
way.

> Ralf, I'm curious as to your statement about *needing*
> autoconf < 2.62.  I truly don't understand why anyone
> is unable to update and use modern versions.

Good question, and one I mean to bring up with the package maintainer as
soon as he fixes gcc and the billion other things I've asked him for.

Joel
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Joel J. Adamson
Servedio Lab
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj

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