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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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