committing update to configure

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 30, 2008, at 13:02, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2008, at 20:06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>> I decided to regen configure since it was made with an old  
>>> version of autoconf that doesn't detect X11 properly.
>>
>> You should definitely regenerate configure after modifying  
>> configure.ac. However changing the version of autoconf used should  
>> be discussed first. In what way does the version of autoconf we've  
>> been using not detect X11 properly, and what is the implication of  
>> that improper detection?
>
> The older version of autoconf searches for libX11.so to find X11,  
> but it should be searching for libX11.dylib :
>
> # With the configure generated by the newer autoconf:
> ~/src/macports/trunk/base $ grep dylib configure
>     for ac_extension in a so sl dylib la dll; do
>   for ac_extension in a so sl dylib la dll; do

Doesn't that mean that MacPorts has thus never detected X11  
correctly, and therefore that it really hasn't mattered?