No, I don't mind the new ideas. It's only the enforcing and version confusion. It's also very hard to use autoconf to find the correct autoconf version, so you're back at /bin/sh stuff.
On my system, I have:
autoconf -> ../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl autoconf-2.13 autoconf-2.53a autoconf-2.54
It might or might not be a standard, but it should be possible to let run_autoconfig (and configure for Makefile) to check for autoconf-<correct version>.
"autoconf" is a perl script. I haven't investigated it further.
/ Mirar
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2003-01-09 14:12: Subject: autoheader
But you don't object to using the language "autoconf2.50" per se? It shouldn't be too much trouble to make run_autoconf check whether the binary "autoconf" implements the language "autoconf2.50" or not, and bail out if it doesn't. Other packages tend to do this.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)