During the cooker developments of mandrake, I noticed they did create a little script as /usr/bin/autoconf that would look for either configure.in or configure.ac - if it finds the latter, it will forward the call to /usr/bin/autoconf-2.5x, otherwise it will use /usr/bin/autoconf-2.13, where of course each one is the renamed binary of their respective releases.
While this is a good idea, after switching to 8.2 I wondered why some autm4ate files did pop up as I did expect this to be bound to 2.53 - and indeed, a call to `autoconf --version` in a directory with configure.ac will reveal 2.52d - and not 2.52. Can it be that the mandrake guys were accidently using a development version as the usage of an alpha-suffix to the last release-version makes one intuitivly expect an update/fixedrelease? Or was that intentional for some reason - may be someone could enlight me whether autom4te based series and autoconf-2.13 could perhaps share the same datadir tree. TIA, -- guido http://freespace.sf.net/guidod
