On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:24:24AM +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote: > you should report this bug to the bug report address of the "grip" > project. Tell them to read the section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" > of the manual to autoconf-2.59.
In retrospect it would have saved many emails to this mailing list if the error message had indicated explicitly that the bug is in the package being configured, not in autoconf. The message could even have included a reference to the correct section of the Autoconf manual. > They have misconfigured the bug report address in AC_INIT, so also tell > them to change it to *their* bug report address. I didn't know about this. It seems to me to be sensible to make that argument non-optional if every maintainer should change it. Regards, James.
