>>>>> "Harlan" == Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Harlan> Since I have not found a way to tell the various people who
Harlan> work on autoconf that a particular date or tag of the autoconf
Harlan> tree is what they have to use, I simply keep a tarball around
Harlan> of the version I am using and hand it out as-needed.

Fair enough.  The ChangeLog date is a good approximation too, but soon
we should have snapshot, and the mess we created should be cleaned up.

Harlan> I don't have enough time to track when a particular
Harlan> instantiation of the autoconf tree is usable and since I have
Harlan> to change a few places in ntp's configure.in whenever I roll
Harlan> back/roll forward (AC_CHECK_MEMBERS and something else), I
Harlan> leave it alone.

I'm responsible for this, sorry.

Harlan> If/when autoconf starts providing useful version numbers and
Harlan> ways to get a particular version of autoconf I'll be able to
Harlan> be more accomodating.

Harlan> Until then I simply can't afford the time to change versions
Harlan> of autoconf all that often.

You probably don't need to.

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