On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 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.
I find it mildly amusing that after 2-3 years of complaining about us using the older autotools, we now get complaints about using the newer ones ;) But yes, the "backwards compatibiluity" in the autotools packages is terrible. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
