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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 20:22:07 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Automake 1.5
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:08:56AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 10:06, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I don't like this, but this is one of those situations where you have
>>to choose between the frying pan and the fire.  Neither choice is
>>perfect.
>
>borrow from debian?  they have an autoconf wrapper that runs a
>heuristic and then runs either autoconf 2.13 or 2.52.

Sure.  Sounds like a workable solution.

Debian is a great..., um, er, no comment.

cgf

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