gas/configure

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Ben,

> I see that this was recently regenerated by Mark Mitchell using
> Autoconf 2.53:
> 
>    revision 1.111
>    date: 2002/04/30 17:46:58;  author: mmitchel;  state: Exp;  lines: +7006 -3146
>    * configure.in: Add support for powerpc-*-windiss.
>    * configure: Regenerated.
> 
> Does the binutils project have a policy for the version of Autoconf
> that will be used (at least in the near term) for generating configure
> scripts?

Yes.  The top level file README-maintainer-mode specifies that the
autoconf found in:

   ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils.

Should be used.  This is the 2.13 version.

> I bring this up because a change introduced in Autoconf
> 2.50+ has broken "make check" in the gas directory.

Alan Modra has now fixed this.

Cheers
        Nick