Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: reject m4 versions only older than 1.4.8

[Zack Weinberg]

On 2022-10-06 11:18 AM, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
> On 10/6/22, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> > Thanks for mentioning the problem. I think the code is right here and
> > the documentation is wrong, so I installed the attached instead.
>
> The git history says that the requirement is 1.4.8 or newer:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=fec8a33d87bbe9f024a31a18642618716b7ad7c9

There's a subtlety here. 1.4.8 is sufficient for general usage of 
Autoconf, as described in that commit, but may not be sufficient to 
*bootstrap* Autoconf itself.  (I don't know of any concrete reason it 
*wouldn't* work, but I do know it hasn't been tested thoroughly.)

zw