Re: autoconf-2.69c released [beta]

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2020, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> A great many macros (still used to provide backward compatibility) are now 
> declared as obsolete.  I ran 'autoupdate' and see that AC_TRY_COMPILE 
> statements were changed to use new syntax.  The problem is that with the 
> replacement code it inserted I get this m4 error:
>
> libtoolize: found LT_INIT invocation
> m4:configure.ac:1045: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L<N> to change

I see that if I use 'autoupdate' from 2.69 that it also produces a 
configure.ac which recurses.  Is 'autoupdate' supposed to be safe to 
use?

Bob
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