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Re: Pingus (again)



On Wednesday 30 October 2002 15:45, Steve Baker wrote:
> The whole idea of the auto* tools is that they are run by DEVELOPERS
> and they only rely on common shell tools and 'make' on the end user's
> machine.

There are subtle annoyances (such as AC_OUTPUT being incomatible between ac 
2.13 and 2.5), but generally this is indeed the case.
The problem was that autoconf was unmaintained for quite a long time - 
currently things seem to get into shape again.

Josef

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