bug#1859 and autoconf

[Boriss Mejias]

Boriss Mejias wrote:
> Dear hackers,
> 
> In the incoming bug reports, there is a contribution of Marc Hougardy 
> related to macosx running in intel (see bug#1859). It is about a small 
> fix in ozplatform.sh and emulator/configure. I have no way to test it, 
> but if nobody disagree I will commit it to the CVS.
> 
> Then, a related issue is the reconf.sh script that is used to modify the 
> configure files using configure.in and aclocal.m4. It works with 
> autoconf 2.13, but it is not compatible with autoconf 2.5X, which are 
> the series that are mostly used now. One thing is that the -l option is 
> not valid any more, but I guess that the new one equivalent is -B. I 
> tried this, but I'm getting several warnings about variables set in 
> configure.in files, and finale the configure generated is not runnable.
> 
> Is anyone familiar with the process of migrating from autoconf 2.13 to 
> 2.5X ?
> 
> Does anybody disagree committing the fix to bug#1859?

I'll commit the fix then, using autoconf 2.13.

cheers
Boriss

> 
> 
> cheers
> Boriss
> 
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