Re: autoconf 2.59
>>>> "Mike" == Mike FABIAN
<mfabian(a)suse.de> writes:
> Given the way that loop termination test is written (not to
> mention autotools history), it's unsurprising. I don't think
> you can win in both versions.
Mike> Strange, XEmacs builds here with Andreas's patch for older
Mike> versions of SUSE Linux as well, for example it builds for
Mike> SUSE Linux 10.0 which still has autoconf 2.59:
Did you actually run autoconf? Did it take longer than usual?
Normally on my 1GHz PPC Mac "Panther" it takes about 20 seconds to run
autoconf 2.59; with Andreas' patch I killed the process after 15 min,
about 5 min CPU.
Mike> The sources and patches for all of these rpms are identical.
You're sure that configure gets rebuilt for every build?
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