Time has come to stop with /usr/local path pollution!

[Ken Murchison]

Quoting Rob Siemborski <rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu>:

> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
> > Well, I can actually testbed the configure changes for you, and use them
> for
> > the Debian builds... But my requirements re. cmulocal are very different
> > (aka. as long as it works for Debian's Cyrus build) than CMU's.  However,
> > since my build env. is _very_ well behaved and all the stuff is under
> /usr,
> > it gets somewhat difficult to spot bugs in the find-the-foo paths from
> > configure.in :-)
> 
> This is actually a lot of our problem as well.  All of our machines are
> very specifically facilitized to be nearly identical.  Thus, it may work
> for us, but we really only have one setup to look at.  I also do some
> testing on some pretty stock RedHat machines, but that's all I generally
> have time for configure-wise.
> 
> Bug #1386 is a tracking of our progress towards getting autoconf 2.50+
> happy with Cyrus SASL.  At this point (as far as I know), autoconf 2.50+
> should be working with Cyrus SASL modulo some quoting issues in the --help
> output of configure, so this should imply that cmulocal should be happy
> with 2.50+ as well.  (A lot of this work is credited to Carlos Velasco,
> who went to great lengths to work with us so that none of his changes
> broke a 2.13 build either).
> 
> There isn't currently a bug tracking the progress for Cyrus IMAPd, since,
> well, no one has volunteered to do the work yet to both make it work with
> 2.53 *and* keep it working with 2.13.  (And, well, that's definately a
> battle we're not willing to fight on our own yet, since it *is* working
> for us).

2.13/2.53 _should_ both work with Cyrus (CVS).  In fact, I tested and committed 
Carlos' patches before he started working on the SASL stuff.

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