Re: [PATCH] update configure.ac to autoconf 2.61

[Felix Zielcke]

Well, commited.

Am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2008, 09:45 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke:
> Am Mittwoch, den 03.09.2008, 19:43 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin:
> > 
> > I don't see any old stuff being removed.  I don't see any justification
> > for any of the changes.  The new code is longer and less readable.  I
> > don't think AC_TRY_COMPILE is a big problem yet.  It's not like it won't
> > produce a valid test.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Autoconf-Macro-Index
> 
> AC_TRY_COMPILE is listed as `Obsolete Macro'.
> 
> I attached now even a diff with autoconf 2.62 which I won't commit, but
> maybe you or someone else is interested.
> Changelog says AC_GNU_SOURCE has been deprecated, though they're
> currently no plans to remove it.
> 
> Currently it's not really needed but things get easily forgotten, even I
> myself forgot a patch from me ..
> We don't need to discuss running `autoupdate' in ./autogen.sh this is
> really bad.
> The Debian Build System has such a feature too but ftp-masters' reject
> packages which uses it by default.
> 
> You only need to run autoconf -Wall then you see.
> Ok they're not shown by default, but I don't like to have obsolte
> deprecated stuff if it can be easily avoided like in this case.
> 
> > In any case, please try to avoid extra long lines where it can be easily
> > avoided.
> 
> I hope the intention is now right, Emacs had a problem with it.
> 
> > Okuji wrote that he uses Autoconf 2.59, so it would be nice to check
> > that your changes would still work with that version.
> 
> Luckly it's still avaible in Debian oldstable (sarge)
> newest CentOS 5.2 even still has autoconf 2.59
> Changes are the same as with 2.61 so 2.59 seems to be fine.
> 
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