Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions.

Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-05T22:36:39Z

>I'd like to remind everyone involved that last I checked it was flat
>impossible to do what libstdc++-v3/configure.in needs to do, using
>autoconf 2.5x. I am not particularly sanguine about the situation

Flat impossible?

Wow.

And for the top level, all I had to do was define my own entire set of
macros to replace the AC_CHECK_TOOL and AC_PROG_* collection. :-)

I'd be interested to hear more about the problem. Why can't it be dealt
with by using private macros?

--Nathanael