New autoconf is expected Really Soon Now

New autoconf is expected Really Soon Now

[Andrej Borsenkow]

he-he:

- Diagnostics
  More errors are now caught (circular AC_REQUIRE dependencies,
  AC_DEFINE in the action part of an AC_CACHE_CHECK, too many pops
  etc.).  In addition, their location and call stack are given.


But, seriously, new version looks really much better an cleaner than before
(it does not completely solve AC_CHECK_HEADERS problem, but leaves it up to
configure writer to decide if warnings are harmful).

I intended to go through configure.in when new version comes out. Not for the
4.0.1, of course. The problem is, this will make configure.in incompatible
with previous autoconf versions. Any thoughts?

-andrej

Have a nice DOS!
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Re: New autoconf is expected Really Soon Now

[Peter Stephenson]

Andrej wrote:
> I intended to go through configure.in when new version comes out. Not for the
> 4.0.1, of course. The problem is, this will make configure.in incompatible
> with previous autoconf versions. Any thoughts?

I don't think this is a big problem, since  only developers need autoconf.
We just need everyone on this list to be aware they will have to upgrade to
use the version  straight from CVS.  There may be points  in the make cycle
where we can detect problems and print appropriate warnings --- though this
won't work if you are starting from scratch.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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