Re: [TCLCORE] [Tcl-bugs] tcl-cvs: "tcl/unix configure.in" modified

[Daniel A. S. <da...@us...>]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 13:09, Jan Nijtmans <jan...@gm...> wrote:
> 2009/1/3 Daniel A. Steffen <da...@us...>:
>> (in particular compatible with autoconf 2.61, which some insist on using even though it was decided we could not switch to it yet...)

to clarify, the fix in question was for compatibility with 2.61 _and
later_, I wasn't advocating using 2.61 specifically.
Last time we discussed updating past autoconf 2.59, there was
opposition to the idea (c.f. bug tracker, re uintptr_t detection
IIRC).
FWIW I'm perfectly happy to stay at 2.59, it's trivial to install it
locally if your system only has a later version...
what I would like to see however is that everybody stick to the
version we decide on, if you look at the recent history of
tcl/unix/configure, it is full of 2000 line diffs from repeated
back-and-forth between 2.61 and 2.59...

Cheers,

Daniel

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