[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Obey current GNU standard for docdir/datarootdir make ...

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Apr 21 00:14:00 PDT 2007


Eric Y. Kow writes:

 > Thanks, but maybe we should hold on to this patch until people get more
 > advanced versions of the software. On MacOS X, for example, I only have
 > autoconf 2.59.  I could install 2.61 via MacPorts, but I'm not sure this
 > is the kind of thing you want to force people to

Please, do not.  Specifically, autoconf 2.6x is known buggy for x =
0,1.  Installs of autoconf 2.6x will cause build problems for other
applications with 100% correct configure.in.  It doesn't error, it
simply produces an incorrect configure.

AFAIK 2.59 is happy enough with datarootdir-correct configure.in, so
there's no need to bump the require once you've fixed configure.in.

 > do [then again, I also think we can be more daring with the
 > unstable branch].

It's not just darcs that will be affected.


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