[Python-Dev] (libffi) Re: Copyright issue

[Michael Hudson]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> The source distribution would contain aclocal.m4; it would not
> contain the autoconf/autoheader tools themselves.

To a rather different point, do we need aclocal.m4 at all?  This is
the log for aclocal.m4:

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r34284 | anthonybaxter | 2003-09-27 11:12:27 +0200 (Sat, 27 Sep 2003) | 5 lines

fix for bug #811160 - autoconf vs. hp/ux system header files.
also applied to release23-maint.

Note that aclocal.m4 can go away when autoconf 2.58 is out.

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I think 2.58 actually had a brown-paper-bag release style bug, but
2.59 has been out for ages now.  If we were prepared to
AC_PREREQ(2.59), I think this whole issue could go away.

Cheers,
mwh

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