Sender: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk Message-ID: <3E24992F.E159BAEC@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:11:43 +0000 From: Richard Dawe X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.23 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: New config.site in autoconf 2.57 port References: <3E249440 DOT 7000901 AT mif DOT vu DOT lt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Hello. Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > with new config.site now every autoconf 2.13 script generates a warning: > > Warning: This configure script was generated using an old version of > autoconf > Warning: Newer versions have much better DJGPP compatibility > > What's the purpose of this warning? IMHO it is simply useless because > configure scripts are meant to be run by all users who install from > sources and not only by package maintainers. Ordinary users cannot fix > this (you cannot take 2.13 configure.in, regenerate configure with new > autoconf and expect it to work) and developers should be aware of this > already. Most packages come pre-configured, so you shouldn't need to run the configure script in most cases. I agree it isn't particularly helpful. Pardon the "slippery shoulders", but I just included the config.site that Tim van Holder gave me. Tim, what do you think? Bye, Rich =] -- Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]