> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Simon Matter wrote: >> 1.7 and autoconf 2.57. Older RedHat releases like 7.2, 7.3 are using >> automake 1.4 and autoconf 2.13. cyrus-imapd-2.2.2-BETA and > > They won't be capable of processing the auto* stuff, then. autotools have > almost NO backward compatibility in practice, no matter what they would > like > to say otherwise.
Hm, glad to hear it's not just me. > I do change stuff in configure.in for Debian, but I run auto* in my build > system before uploading the packages, so that the end users get a source > package that doesn't need auto* to be run. Okay, I will do the same. Means, if there is need to run the auto* stuff, I do it on a box with the right auto tools and then create a patch of the results to have them available for builds where the auto* tools are missing. Thanks, Simon
