Autoconf 2.52 and Open Muscat

Yes!! The good news is that what was open muscat but that is now xapian (www.xapian.org) is having it's php module finished this week! [The muscat module will expire and be replaced by Xapian, a much more comprehensive module] The trouble is Xapian prefers autoconf 2.52 as it provides large-file-support test macros for all platforms; but php chokes on this version of autoconf for some reason; the same reason many other packages choke on it; e.g.: http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-support/2001/11/0014. html So I thought I would bring the pendig autoconf 2.52 changes to the attention of those concerned and then leave them to address it at their leisure. Thanks guys. Sam