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Re: autoconf 2.72/2.73 on RCS
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Zack Weinberg |
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Re: autoconf 2.72/2.73 on RCS |
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Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:38:56 -0400 |
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Cyrus-JMAP/3.9.0-alpha0-238-g746678b8b6-fm-20230329.001-g746678b8 |
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, at 12:25 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-04-03 01:00, Frederic Berat wrote:
>> It would have been nice to keep these macro around for backward
>> compatibility. Assuming they are only used by gnulib, they wouldn't
>> need to be kept for too long.
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> Fair enough. I installed the attached into Autoconf on savannah, so that
> one should be able to use bleeding-edge Autoconf on the current RCS release.
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> This patch uses m4_define rather than AU_DEFUN because
> _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_CODE is defined via m4_define rather than via
> AC_DEFUN. So the user is not warned that _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES
> is obsolete. I don't know why _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_CODE doesn't use
> AC_DEFUN, so I'll cc this to Zack (who wrote that code) to see whether
> we can change to AC_DEFUN and AU_DEFUN here.
I wasn't expecting anyone to AC_REQUIRE either of these macros, is all.
zw