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Re: small configury update



Thanks, I've applied this without the version enforcement bits.

On Thursday, 10 August 2006 at 22:00, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> Nice to see Matthias' (and others') work on the mutt configury!
> 
> There are a couple of superfluous lines in Makefile.am; also, you could
> spell out the version recommendations from doc/devel-notes.txt
> explicitly in configure.in and Makefile.am (although that will break for
> users who insist on trying out an older Automake version, for example;
> feel free to drop that part of the patch).
> 
> More seriously though, Autoconf-2.60 won't provide for an exit
> declaration any more, which may falsify a couple of tests (e.g., on
> recent 64 bit systems); the solution is to either #include stdlib.h in
> the test source, or to use return instead of exit (the systems where a
> return value from main was unportable should be long dead).
> 
> Further, note one instance of uninitialized datarootdir variable I
> missed in the 2006-01-26 change, in doc/instdoc.sh.in.
> 
> For you users, it may be helpful to run
>   autoreconf --install --include=m4 --force
> 
> once (with current autotools installed) and check in the newer generated
> files; on some of the younger systems, builds may fail merely due to
> outdated config.guess and similar files.
> 
> The changes in the patch below are compatible with Autoconf 2.59.
> 

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