Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:58:16 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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Subject: Re: proposed change to autoconf macro 
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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, bowman wrote:

> diff -c3 share/autoconf/acgeneral.m4 share/oldacf/acgeneral.m4
> *** share/autoconf/acgeneral.m4	Wed Oct 21 09:27:50 1998
> --- share/oldacf/acgeneral.m4	Wed Oct 21 06:48:40 1998

This is backwards.  Patches should be generated by "diff -c old new",
see section 22.2 of the FAQ.

> diff -c3 share/autoconf/autoconf.m4 share/oldacf/autoconf.m4
> *** share/autoconf/autoconf.m4	Wed Oct 21 09:48:22 1998
> --- share/oldacf/autoconf.m4	Wed Oct 21 09:48:56 1998
> ***************
> *** 22,28 ****
>   dnl
>   include(acgeneral.m4)dnl
>   builtin(include, acspecific.m4)dnl
> ! builtin(include, acoldname.m4)dnl
>   dnl Do not sinclude acsite.m4 here, because it may not be installed
>   dnl yet when Autoconf is frozen.
>   dnl Do not sinclude ./aclocal.m4 here, to prevent it from being
> frozen.
> --- 22,28 ----
>   dnl
>   include(acgeneral.m4)dnl
>   builtin(include, acspecific.m4)dnl
> ! builtin(include, acoldnames.m4)dnl


Why is it a good idea to change the script, when as far as I
understand the problem is that the distribution has a wrong file name?
Do we really want to be incompatible with the official GNU
distribution?

It would also be a mighty good idea to update the Autoconf distribution
on SimTel.NET so that those problems will not bite others.