Re: Debian PHP patches

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Gwynne Raskind wrote: >>> Though I thought the use of high-numbered diversions was >>> actually a supported thing - or was that only in 2.13? >>> >> That argument is not supported by the autoconf manual. Please see the >> discussion at >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542906#10 > > Well, the autoconf maintainers have a different opinion on that. They > don't see anything wrong with doing diverts if there is no other way to > accomplish something. > > You can read this thread about my attempts to create a portable autoconf > setup that works both in autoconf-2.60+ and previous versions. There > were various ideas, but in the end none of them proved to be reliable. > > We need diversions prior to 2.60 or whichever version introduced > AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER. In autoconf versions that have > AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER we can use that and we can drop the diversions > entirely. > > Renumbering the diversions and the various other attempts people have > made doesn't work. Oops, missed the thread link: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2009-11/msg00100.html