Re: [Powertop] [PATCH] Relaxed autoconf version restriction for scratchbox build

On 07/19/2012 11:52 PM, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
> Relaxed autoconf version restriction for scratchbox build.
> PowerTOP successfully builds with 2.67 version of Autotools.
> ---
>   configure.ac |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 4b3d027..e1e670a 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>   #                                               -*- Autoconf -*-
>   # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
>   
> -AC_PREREQ([2.68])
> +AC_PREREQ([2.67])
>   AC_INIT([powertop], [2.0], [powertop(a)lists.01.org])
>   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall foreign ])
>   AC_LANG([C++])
What is the problem? Why do you need to do this? What is the benefit to 
the PowerTOP project?