On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:40:13AM +0000, James Youngman wrote: > 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.
This is what happens in packages using Autoconf >= 2.58.