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Re: small configury update



Hello Matthias, everyone,

* Matthias Andree wrote on Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:33:31PM CEST:
> 
> Congratulations on the autoconf 2.60 release BTW - although I should
> have wished for an accumulated list of incompatible changes (such as the
> datarootdir stuff) at the very beginning of the 2.60 NEWS
> entries... Next time :)

Yeah.  We put it in the announcement, but prioritizing NEWS would have
been even better, agreed.

> > -AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.6 foreign
> > +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.9 foreign
> 
> I object to that change. While 1.9 is documented as requirement, I found
> no difficulties building mutt after aclocal-1.6;automake-1.6, and there
> seems to be a considerable installed base of automake 1.8 based
> systems. Let's not put spokes in their wheels.

Oh, fine with me.  It seems Brendan left both version requirements out
on purpose, and I was merely too lazy to try out older versions.

Cheers,
Ralf