problem in configure with ptys

[Vin Shelton]

Mike FABIAN <mfabian at suse.de> writes:

> Jerry James <james at xemacs.org> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:
>
>> Mike FABIAN <mfabian at suse.de> wrote:
>>> Werner said he found the reason for the missing defines.
>>>
>>> According to Werner, it looks like Autoconf 2.59 doesn't accept
>>> comments behind the #undef statements in config.h.in.  Because after
>>> applying the attached patch it works.
>>
>> This is the contents of configure.ac:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> AC_FATAL([
>>
>> #### Autoconf 2.5x is not yet supported by XEmacs.
>> #### Our configure script is known *not* to work with these versions of
>> #### Autoconf. Please continue using Autoconf 2.13 for now.
>> ])
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> So is Werner deliberately crippling this in order to use Autoconf 2.59
>> even though it isn't supported, or is Autoconf 2.59 magically producing
>> output somehow even though this file was created to avoid that
>> happening?
>
> Yes, we remove this check because we have to use autoconf 2.59
> because that is what we have in the current version of SuSE Linux.
> We cannot use autoconf 2.13 only for XEmacs.
>
> We have a patch to make the configure script work with autoconf 2.59.
> I attach it here.

But configure is kept up-to-date wrt its sources in CVS.  Why do you
even need to run autoconf at all?

  - vin