bug#13378: Backward-compatibility in the autotools

2013-01-13 Thread Peter Johansson
On 01/12/2013 04:45 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: As a rule of thumb on when to remove a macro - I would personally like being able to write a configure script that works on both RHEL 5 (or CentOS 5) (autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.6) as well as rawhide (eventually automake 1.14 and beyond),

bug#13378: Backward-compatibility in the autotools (was: Re: [PATCH] compile: use 'compile' script when -c -o is used with losing compilers)

2013-01-11 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/11/2013 07:19 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 01/10/2013 06:33 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: Reference: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13378#50 @acindex AC_PROG_CC_C_O -This is like @code{AC_PROG_CC_C_O}, but it generates its results in -the manner required by Automake. You