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Bug in build c-ares

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From: Thomas Jahns <jahns <at> dkrz.de>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49901: Bug in build c-ares [too many loops]
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 16:33:22 +0200

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On 8/17/21 7:06 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
> If you really need something like this to support bootstrapping with
> Autoconf 2.57 (which is getting close to 20 years old now!), I suggest
> you find another solution that doesn't involve redefining the internals
> on newer Autoconf versions.

I found that to support older autoconf versions, it was useful to put 
overrides into conditional blocks like this:

m4_if(m4_version_compare(m4_PACKAGE_VERSION,[2.70]),[-1],
  [m4_include([m4/ac_fc_module_output_flag.m4])])

Regards, Thomas
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