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Re: Spurious error from autoheader
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Spurious error from autoheader |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:19:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
> AC_AIX is an alias for AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS these days.
That aliasing (also for AC_MINIX) has created quite a few backward
compatibility problems. Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea in the first
place?
> An easy fix is to remove AC_DEFINE(__EXTENSIONS_, ...) from
> configure.ac, AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS takes care about it.
The snippet is taken from the python configure script. The Python devs
would probably want to stay compatible with earlier versions of
autoconf.
Andreas.
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