Re: [PATCH 0/6] {master} Get rid of de-ANSI-fication support

[Stefano Lattarini]

Reference:
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-08/msg00200.html>
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-09/msg00000.html>
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-09/msg00001.html>

On Sunday 28 August 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> This patch series (for master) completely remove the obsolete
> de-ANSI-fication support from the Automake codebase.
> 
> It doesn't get rid of the `AM_C_PROTOTYPES' m4 macro and `ansi2knr'
> automake option completely, though: they are still handled to give
> a more detailed error message about the de-ANSI-fication support
> removal, to help transition of "stubborn" packages.  I plan to
> completely remove them only starting from the next-after-the-next
> release (1.13, ideally).
> 
> After the series is applied, the testsuite still passes (tested
> on Solaris 10 with gcc 4.6.0, Sun C 5.9, GNU make 3.82 and
> /usr/ccs/bin/make).
> 
> I will give 72 hours for reviews before pushing to a topic branch
> 'remove-deansification', to be soon merged into master.
> 
> Regards,
>   Stefano
> 
> -*-*-*-
> 
> Stefano Lattarini (6+1):
>   docs: remove description of de-ANSI-fication support from manual
>   tests: remove tests about obsolete de-ANSI-fication support
>   ansi: reject attempts to use automatic de-ANSI-fication support
>   ansi: remove dead code/files for automatic de-ANSI-fication support
>   automake: cleanups after de-ansification support removal (1)
>   automake: cleanups after de-ansification support removal (2)
>   automake: fix regression due to de-ansification support removal
>

I've pushed this series now, and merged to master.

Regards,
  Stefano