Re: Autoconf version discrepancies

> The Hermit Hacker writes:
> 
> > Okay, autoconf on hub.org is based on what is in ports ... the only
> > "custom patches" are that which are in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf/patches,
> > and I just went through them and there doesn't look like anything *odd* in
> > there ... can you look at those patches and tell me which one is screwing
> > things up for you, that I'm not seeing? :(
> 
> The patches ad, ae, and af will cause configure to fail on machines
> without mktemp.  It's not like things get "screwed up" for me, but the
> point of Autoconf is portability to *all* machines, so FreeBSD-specific
> changes/optimizations(?) seem misplaced.

Are there any platforms that do not have mktemp?  Hard to imagine.

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