[Xcb] GPLv3 (Re: [ANNOUNCE] xcb-util 0.3.8)
Arnaud Fontaine
arnaud at andesi.org
Tue May 24 22:17:30 PDT 2011
Hi,
>>>>> Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at freedesktop.org> writes:
> This is the first released tarball from X.org and XCB that
> requires autoconf-2.62 to autoconf. What is needed from 2.62 that
> isn't in 2.61? 2.62 is released under GPLv3 making it very
> difficult for users to rebuild the configure script.
Autoconf 2.62 is only required because of AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK
used in XCB_UTIL_M4_WITH_INCLUDE_PATH (xcb_util_m4_with_include_path.m4)
to check whether '-I' m4 options is supported.
That's being said, it's completely meaningless for xcb/util because m4
was only being used for (removed) atoms list, therefore I just removed
dependencies on m4 and gperf and downgrade autoconf version too in
fe292de[0].
However, xcb/util-wm uses XCB_UTIL_M4_WITH_INCLUDE_PATH, so it still
depends upon Autoconf 2.62. Feel free to submit a patch if you have any
problem with that ;).
Cheers,
--
Arnaud Fontaine
[0] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xcb/util/commit/?id=69fd3c5ec820dedfa743ea677d0618c63fe292de
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