Re: Allow to work on systems without Fcntl::flock implementation.

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > Why not? (not a rhetoric question).
>
> Why not *what*?  Why not fork the file?  Why not apply this patch as-is?
> Why not integrate this change in Automake?

I meant this.

> Anyway, to integrate this in Automake would need a configure test in its
> configure.ac (or a new m4 macro file) that isn't really needed there
> currently (as Automake does not use XFile::lock at all).  If you insist,
> I'll look into it.  However, my only real motivation to get Autoconf
> running under DJGPP is so that I have an easy way to test configure
> scripts under DJGPP by running the Autoconf test suite.

I don't insist. :-)

Paolo