Subject: Re: bug#8342: 24.0.50; Emacs HEAD cannot build with OS X standard autoconf

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:26:27 +0100

Steve Purcell skrev 2011-03-25 14.29:
> The latest Apple developer tools (XCode 3.2.6) provide autoconf version
> 2.61. Since 'configure' was removed from emacs bzr, it cannot be
> regenerated on this platform without autoconf>= 2.6.5, i.e. overriding
> Apple's standard autotools, which is widely deprecated.

Deprecated by who?  I have had autoconf in /usr/local for years on OSX, and 
noticed no ill effects on XCode projects.
>
> IMHO, it should continue to be possible to build emacs without doing so,
> as has always been the case.

It is still the case for released versions, it is just the developer version 
that has changed.  This is more or less how other projects manage development 
versions.

	Jan D.