This is why autoconf annoys me. Sometimes it will actually check functionality, but most people just write rules to compare against version numbers. And of cour

This is why autoconf annoys me. Sometimes it will actually check functionality, but most people just write rules to compare against version numbers. And of course they get it wrong and think that 1.8.12rc2 is somehow less recent than 1.8.9. Don't tell me it won't work, try it and show me it won't work.