autoconf 2.59 [was: 2.60] runs into an endless loop

Mike> Andreas Schwab <schwab(a)suse.de&gt; made a patch to make it work Mike> with autoconf 2.60. It is attached. sjt> Great! Thanks! And pass on our thanks to Andreas. Unfortunately, Andreas's patch breaks 2.59 in the same way. 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. I spent a few minutes trying to find a way to conditionalize, but it's quite unclear how to do so portably (seems at least in the documents available to me m4_version_compare is undocumented, which means that semantics may change at any time), so I'm punting. My feeling is that we should avoid using a language that can't even implement a fundamental primitive with the same semantics from one minor version to the next, and go back to programming this kind of thing in shell. Malcolm? -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.