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Re: glibc cvs broken?
On Oct 8, 2002, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Do we really want to *require* it (as opposed to just being compatible
>> with it)?
> There is no compatiblity possible.
This is not true.
> The autoconf maintainers did a good job in making that impossible
> without requiring rewrites of all the autoconf files.
autoconf files written within the autoconf/m4 rules should work just
fine. Unfortunately, this is true of a very small percentage of the
configure.in files out there.
Anyway, I don't mean to start a flame war, I was just asking a
question. I don't care either way.
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