autoconf 2.59

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike FABIAN <mfabian at suse.de> writes:

    >> Given the way that loop termination test is written (not to
    >> mention autotools history), it's unsurprising.  I don't think
    >> you can win in both versions.

    Mike> Strange, XEmacs builds here with Andreas's patch for older
    Mike> versions of SUSE Linux as well, for example it builds for
    Mike> SUSE Linux 10.0 which still has autoconf 2.59:

Did you actually run autoconf?  Did it take longer than usual?
Normally on my 1GHz PPC Mac "Panther" it takes about 20 seconds to run
autoconf 2.59; with Andreas' patch I killed the process after 15 min,
about 5 min CPU.

    Mike> The sources and patches for all of these rpms are identical.

You're sure that configure gets rebuilt for every build?


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