Re: devel platforms without autoconf 2.53

On 15 Aug 2002, Robert Collins wrote:

> Here's a useful trick:
>
> Apply the autoconf-25 patch to your working dirs and bootstrap. That
> gives you complete autoconf feature use.
>
> Before committing, patch -R -p1 the autoconf-25 patch against your
> working dir. That should (nearly always) backout neatly (maybe with a
> little fuzz).

You can also move your development branch to be a branch from autoconf-25.
The drawback is that changes from the main branch will take longer to
propagate down into your branch (must first be merged into the
autoconf-2.5 branch)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Aug 15 2002 - 05:55:39 MDT