Re: Autoconf version discrepancies

I always telnet into hub to run autoconf.  I have a little script in my
~momjian/bin directory called pgautoconf that does that, and cvs commits
the changes.


> I have noticed that some operating system distributors ship custom-patched
> versions of Autoconf.  That is pretty brain-dead because some of the
> changes make things work worse on other systems.
> 
> Therefore I would recommend that everybody install the original
> autoconf-2.13.tar.gz from GNU and not use anything that comes with their
> operating system.  That includes the installation on hub.org.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/
> 
> 


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