[OpenAFS-devel] Minimum autoconf version

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> The problem I have is that it's not obvious to me what's an autoconf
> 2.5x dependency.  I have the autoconf manual in front of me (it's from
> 2.52), and it doesn't tell me what's not in 2.13.  E.g., I used
> AC_ARG_VAR() to declare KRB5CFLAGS and KRB5LIBS as precious, and AFAICT
> there's no equivalant to that in 2.13.  I don't see a good way of
> preventing things like that unless I cross-check _every_ macro I want to
> use against 2.13 documentation.  That kinda sucks.

Right, the Autoconf developers tell everyone "2.13 is obsolete, stop using
it, lots of things changed, we don't have a list."  It's getting harder
and harder to keep supporting it without actually doing all of one's
development with a 2.13 Autoconf.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>