Why autoconf 2.13?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:39:12PM -0700, Fred Fish wrote:
> Is there some reason that gdb is using a 3 year old version of
> autoconf instead of the latest official FSF release (2.53 I think)?
> 
> -Fred

Because all the rest of sourceware is.  Every so often there are noises
made about moving forward, but 2.53 and 2.13 aren't even mostly
compatible in practice.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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