Re: Autoupdate and AC 2.65

[NightStrike]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Eric Blake on 2/24/2010 9:05 AM:
>> According to NightStrike on 2/24/2010 8:48 AM:
>>> When I ran autoupdate from 2.65 against my configure.ac that I
>>> manually updated to 2.65, I noticed this change:
>>>
>>> -AC_PREREQ([2.65])
>>> +AC_PREREQ(2.65)
>>>
>>> Why would autoupdate want to remove the quoting about the version number?
>>
>> Another instance of a low-priority bug that no one has spent time figuring
>> out how to patch.
>
> Before I log off for the evening, I wanted to post some progress: I'm
> toying with this (on the surface, I think this is all that is needed to
> fix things); but still missing is a testsuite addition to prove my
> suspicions.  Help in coming up with a simple test would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I'm assuming a logical testcase would be a prereq without quotes, and
see that they are added, followed by a prereq with quotes, and see
that they remain.