committing update to configure

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 30, 2008, at 14:24, Joshua Root wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 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?
>
> It works on Darwin <= 9 because MP_CHECK_X11 in aclocal.m4 has some
> special cases.

Oh, ok. So this is only an issue for future versions of Mac OS X? Ok,  
then let's use newer autoconf :)