Re: AC_TYPE_SIGNAL obsolete?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
> Again, obsoleting a macro does not mean that existing code that relied on
> the macro will break.  As long as you don't delete AC_TYPE_SIGNAL from
> your configure.ac, your project will not be impacted (other than the fact
> that if you run 'autoconf -Wall' you will get a new warning, mentioning
> that the macro is obsolete when porting to modern targets).

Since modern OS targets should all be compliant to the current Open 
Group specifications it seems that almost all of Autoconf related to 
OS-related porting must be obsolete!  The original purpose of Autoconf 
is now rendered obsolete and Autoconf is now just an elaborate wrapper 
around pkg-config. ;-)

Bob
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