Re: [patch] fix parallel build failures in xfsprogs-3.0.0

Mike Frysinger
2009-03-01T07:59:06Z

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On Saturday 28 February 2009 20:31:01 Greg Banks wrote:
> Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > Jumping between different versions of the auto* tools would become quite
> > ugly,
>
> Absolutely, you want to avoid that. But conversely you can't rely on
> everybody who ever needs to change configure.ac having exactly the same
> version of autoconf as the maintainer.

that isnt to say we should attempt to support every random version out there.
if people want to make with autotools, it's reasonable to require them to have
recent versions.
-mike

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