Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59

Joseph S. Myers
2007-02-09T16:29:33Z

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> Or is it because of the new structure of install directories?

Yes, new install directories. You don't want "make install" to produce a
tree with some files in the new locations and some in the old.

New makefile variables need adding everywhere. Automake needs upgrading
to 1.10 at the same time.

A number of local configure options (--with-datarootdir --with-docdir
--with-htmldir) need removing everywhere since new autoconf has standard
replacements for them. The documentation needs updating to remove those
options and reflect the standard replacements.

The local install-html support in automake-using directories (which those
configure options are present to support) needs removing when upgrading to
new automake with built-in install-html support.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com