Re: groff 1.17.1 aclocal.m4 uses obsolete autoconf macros

[Werner LEMBERG]

> MACHINE: Sony VAIO laptop (Intel PIII)

Aah, another laptop user :-)

> COMMAND LINE: autoconf -Wall

> DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR:

> autoconf complains that AC_LANG_SAVE AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS
> AC_LANG_RESTORE as used in aclocal.m4 are obsolete

> This diff against aclocal.m4 changes AC_LANG_SAVE AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS
> to AC_LANG_PUSH(C++) and AC_LANG_RESTORE to AC_LANG_POP(C++).  This
> is in line with the move to autoconf version 2.50, documented in the
> ChangeLog.  The configure file produced by autoconf after these
> changes appears to be identical modulo some blank lines.

I'll apply it, thanks.  But why doesn't `autoupdate' catch this?


    Werner