Tom> I looked into this a little. It looks like the PPL checks don't work
Tom> properly in the case where PPL is a system library. I guess I need
Tom> --with-ppl=/usr ... I will try that later.
I don"t know really how to fix that quickly! I must confess that
autoconf related files in GCC scares me a big lot.
Yes they are complicated but (unlike some other projects) people have a
handle on them...
BTW, I really cannot
imagine why GCC still required autoconf 2.59 specifically, and not 2.63.
What is so specific about 2.59?
Nothing, but just like Autoconf 2.50 should have been 3.0, similarly
2.60 should have been a major version number as it changed datadir from
/usr/share to /usr/share/package, among other things.
In fact, GCC moved smoothly from to first 2.5x it used to 2.59, but
stopped there.
I shouldn't say so because I was one of the main contributors (with Ralf
and with Eric Blake), but I'm sure that people on the list will
appreciate Autoconf 2.64. Which should have been another 3.0, even
though the user-visible changes are not too many.
Paolo
