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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Alasdair Allan wrote:

> > > I probably should do a fresh check out and try and build it under
> > > MacOS X (again), I'm guessing there are whole new bugs and updates to
> > > break things since the last time I did a clean checkout.
> >
> > Be careful -- I mailed on Sunday night [1] to say that I'd discovered
> > at the last moment (ie, after commit) that I'd broken autoconf in the
> > repository, so don't update autoconf/automake -- that also applies to
> > fresh checkouts.  I said  ``This is fairly rapid to sort out'', but I
> > think I was being breezily optimistic.  I think I've almost fixed it
> > now, and I'm just testing it, with more paranoia, this time..
>
> That would explain Peter's non-build on Solaris then...

No that flap looks like it's down to a bad version of Perl (5.005), I did
an update of buildsupport and thirdparty/fsf rolled back to last Saturday,
so I should be OK.

Peter.