<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 22:42, Alan Coopersmith <<a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">We document autoconf 2.62 as the minimum release required in:<br>
<a href="https://www.x.org/wiki/Building_the_X_Window_System/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.x.org/wiki/Building_the_X_Window_System/</a><br>
and most modules have AC_PREREQ([2.60]). If I recall correctly, a decade ago<br>
we didn't want to force use of autoconf 2.65 or later since some vendors were<br>
still uncertain at that time about those newer version being under GPLv3 - is<br>
that still a problem for anyone?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>GPLv3 is still a huge no-go for a fair few vendors I know of. If you look around various product source drops, you can generally use shipping bash 3.2.x as a proxy for this.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think this is a huge deal though; for xserver they're all using Meson + Xwayland (if at all), and for the libs they can either rebuild with older autotools (if it's still compatible), or just stick with an older version and forego the torrent of forthcoming improvements in those codebases.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Daniel</div></div></div>