Paul wrote: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2008-06-09 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > + Mark AC_TYPE_SIGNAL as obsolete. > > Thanks for doing this; it makes sense to me. Signal handlers > returning 'int' became obsolete on all C platforms as of the first C > standard in 1989. In practice they were obsolete even before that. > This is beyond even Autoconf's broad porting horizon.
I think you are dead wrong on your last point, Paul. I 'deprecated' K&R C support for NTP not all that long ago. And the only reason I have not been more vocal on this thread is because ntp may be stuck with autoconf 2.61 for the long-haul because of GPLv3 concerns, so changes to autoconf after 2.61 may not matter to NTP. H
