Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:46785 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 10771 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2010 21:21:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Jan 2010 21:21:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=rasmus@lerdorf.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=rasmus@lerdorf.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lerdorf.com from 72.14.220.155 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: rasmus@lerdorf.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 72.14.220.155 fg-out-1718.google.com Received: from [72.14.220.155] ([72.14.220.155:3190] helo=fg-out-1718.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 54/C6-22457-DB0D45B4 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:21:02 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so638714fga.11 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.87.24.4 with SMTP id b4mr425336fgj.51.1263849658219; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.200.22? (c-98-234-184-167.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.234.184.167]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm2106051fxm.8.2010.01.18.13.20.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:20:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B54D0B6.9040909@lerdorf.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:20:54 -0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raphael Geissert CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <1263654424.3127.43.camel@guybrush> <4B522D34.7030605@sci.fi> <4B5420FA.6020301@iki.fi> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Debian PHP patches From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf) Raphael Geissert wrote: > Gwynne Raskind wrote: >> Though I thought the use of high-numbered diversions was >> actually a supported thing - or was that only in 2.13? >> > > That argument is not supported by the autoconf manual. Please see the > discussion at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542906#10 Well, the autoconf maintainers have a different opinion on that. They don't see anything wrong with doing diverts if there is no other way to accomplish something. You can read this thread about my attempts to create a portable autoconf setup that works both in autoconf-2.60+ and previous versions. There were various ideas, but in the end none of them proved to be reliable. We need diversions prior to 2.60 or whichever version introduced AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER. In autoconf versions that have AC_PRESERVE_HELP_ORDER we can use that and we can drop the diversions entirely. Renumbering the diversions and the various other attempts people have made doesn't work. -Rasmus -Rasmus