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Re: backward compatability of tools
- From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com>
- To: John Burger <john at mitre dot org>
- Cc: automake <automake at gnu dot org>
- Cc: "autoconf at gnu dot org" <autoconf at gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:24:19 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: backward compatability of tools
- References: <B89E8436-4613-11D7-929A-000393A1DFF0@mitre.org>
- Reply-to: dickey at herndon4 dot his dot com
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, John Burger wrote:
> It seems to be explicitly against the philosophy of Autoconf to do
> anything in response to particular hardware or OS versions. Rather,
back to the original point - changes were made to autoconf which made
it incompatible with known, widely-used versions of Bourne shell for
no better reason than nicety of implementation.
You don't need a special test for that.
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