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

[Dave Love]

"Eric Y. Kow" <eric.kow at gmail.com> 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 do [then again, I also
> think we can be more daring with the unstable branch].

Well, developers need to install the necessary tool versions (whatever
you decide they are).  ghc can be a lot more problematic than
autoconf...

> Besides, on Windows, the autoconf version is also 2.59.

[Cygwin is shipping 2.61 as far as I can tell.]

> Could you resubmit this patch (which looks good otherwise) in the
> future, or just remind me to apply it when MSYS and MacOS X catch up?

Would you accept a backward-compatible version now that DTRT with
datarootdir?