Subject: autoconf 2.61 on debian etch and GCC
From: Laurent GUERBY <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:45:45 +0200
List-Id: <gcc.gcc.gnu.org>

The new compile farm servers are running debian etch (4.0) which
comes with autoconf 2.61 and no package for 2.59

According to Rask Ingemann Lambertsen autoconf 2.61
doesn't work correctly for GCC (see below).

What do GCC developpers do on debian etch?

Thanks in advance,

Laurent

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 11:27 +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > 
> > If 2.61 really causes us trouble I'll try to do a manual install of 2.59
> > from whatever .tar.gz I can find.
> 
>    It does, as the config.status it produces is broken. Look at this line:
> 
> s,@TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS@,|#_!!_#|/home/rask/src/gcc/configure linux gnu,g
>