Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Upgrading the autotools

[Eric S. <sh...@ne...>]

> How do people feel about upgrading the autotools used for building?

In general, I don't have strong feelings either way, however I've
tried to do this with some other software I work with and failed,
having to drop back to autoconf 2.13.  I didn't spend much time on this,
so it could be that I just didn't look into it deeply enough.

The problems I had were few but (for me) critical.  The first problem I
had was that the "sinclude" m4 builtin didn't seem to be recognized.

That wasn't such a big deal, I could have coded around that, but the
bigger problem was that the sed magic used to actually do the substitutions
failed to work on one of the platforms I needed to support.  (Compaq
OpenVMS running in the GNV Unix emulation environment.  This combination
has a world-wide installed user base of about 3 people, I think...)

Other than that, I tend to agree that the new versions are generally
nicer, make it easier to write tests, and generally better all around.

Eric