Re: avoiding obsolete macros like AC_TRY_RUN

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello All, esp. Ben, Paolo, Paul, Sergey, Simon,
>
> the patch below removes obsolete macros from modules not maintained by
> Bruno or Jim.
>
> Special here is check-math-lib.m4:gl_CHECK_MATH_LIB which uses macro
> arguments.  Is this a public macro?  All in-tree users do not mind the
> change from double-quoted to single-quoted, but out-of-tree macros uses
> may not.
>
> Tested as before by ensuring 'gnulib-tool --with-tests --test' has only
> whitespace and comment changes.
>
> Here is the list of files and owners, in alphabetical order:
>
> All are responsible for
> m4/getcwd.m4
> m4/gethostname.m4
> m4/getopt.m4
> m4/tsearch.m4
> m4/wctype.m4

I welcome changes to all of the above.

...
> Paul Eggert for
> m4/c-stack.m4
> m4/getdate.m4
> m4/time_r.m4
> m4/vararrays.m4

I think I know Paul well enough to vouch for him on this: he would approve.
If necessary, I can phone him to confirm.

Thanks for doing all the work!