[Python-Dev] (libffi) Re: Copyright issue (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Sun Jan 29 10:11:38 CET 2006


"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

The source distribution would contain aclocal.m4; it would not contain the autoconf/autoheader tools themselves.

To a rather different point, do we need aclocal.m4 at all? This is the log for aclocal.m4:


r34284 | anthonybaxter | 2003-09-27 11:12:27 +0200 (Sat, 27 Sep 2003) | 5 lines

fix for bug #811160 - autoconf vs. hp/ux system header files. also applied to release23-maint.

Note that aclocal.m4 can go away when autoconf 2.58 is out.


I think 2.58 actually had a brown-paper-bag release style bug, but 2.59 has been out for ages now. If we were prepared to AC_PREREQ(2.59), I think this whole issue could go away.

Cheers, mwh

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