Re: fileutils-4.1: bug in aclocal.m4

[Jim Meyering]

Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden> wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I just fetched the new GNU fileutils-4.1 and tried to build and install them
| (with 'make install-strip'). In order to do so, I had to apply the following
| patch (bad make-syntax from aclocal.m4).

Thanks!  That will be fixed in the next release.

| Moreover I had to manipulate the time-stamps in order to prevent autoconf
| from starting to mess things up. Since autoconf-2.49e is still labelled
| `development' and is not available from the regular GNU FTP server, I was
| somewhat reluctant to install this version and am still using the old
| autoconf-2.13. Is this autoconf situation going to change in the near
| future????

Yes.