Re: autoconf version

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:03:18AM -0400, Colin Viebrock wrote: > I'm just wondering if that's a mistake. Does 2.53 contain buggy cache > code and is downgrading my version of autoconf really the appropriate > solution? Or was the cache issue solved in a later version, and the > buildconf message needs to be updated? Yes, autoconf-2.53 has a 'feature' called autom4te.cache which fails to update when any m4 dependency is changed. Therefore, yes, it is very buggy and autoconf 2.53 and higher should be avoided at all costs. The only solution is to manually remove autom4te.cache to get a correct configure script built. This, of course, negates the purpose of the cache entirely. -- justin