Re: Updating top-level autoconf to 2.59

Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-09T15:39:06Z

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:37:00PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > Here is what I have checked in. I had to duplicate a bit of a patch
> > from Paul in 2005, to work around an autoconf bug (already fixed
> > upstream): AC_PATH_PROG mangles IFS if the supplied path is empty.
> > That showed up when I tested in src without GCC.
>
> Could using autoconf 2.61 have helped?

Yes, but I am unwilling to try migrating more than one thing at a time
right now. This patch puts all of gcc and src, at long last, on the
same version of autoconf. Moving the whole tree to 2.61 is a separate
project.

(Oh dear, there must be some documentation I didn't update
somewhere...)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery