Re: enable -> with in configure.ac

Malcolm> Also remember that we enforce that only autoconf 2.59 can Malcolm> be used on configure.ac so we can't be stung with future Malcolm> changes until we're ready. this is sort of moot now, but I'd like to point out that AC_REQUIRE(2.59) is not a solution, it is the problem. What really forced our hand was a major friendly vendor devoting resources to updating configure.in because they were unwilling to put up with 2.13 any longer. Given that autoconf 2.5x is last-century technology, does that mean we'll have to wait until 2100 for an Autoconf 3.0 version of configure?:-) That's the problem that I see ... that our configure script will get horribly crufty and bitrotted again precisely because we've got XEmacs-specific code all over the place. None of this means that we shouldn't go ahead with the patch, because AFAICT it doesn't actually make those problems more likely. -- 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.