On 09/21/2012 02:10 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > The minimal automake and aclocal version required by the "most" > conservative important real world-projects (like Gnulib and Libvirt) > is 1.9 anyway (which is the version installed on old but still > supported installations of stable Distros like RHEL 5), so this > change should be safe and justified by now.
Concur. 1.9 is still firmly entrenched in active usage, but I rarely hear about active use of 1.8 or older (even though debian still distributes them). These days, if you running 'autoreconf' on a machine that finds it from autoconf 2.69+, either your distro is also new enough to give you a decent automake by default, or you are experienced enough to install your own software and can ensure a decent automake. And if you are on a Debian machine where your dusty-deck package insists on using older autotools, those wrappers will pick up the correct older autoreconf that works with the older automake. > > * bin/autoreconf.in (parse_args): Simplify by just assuming the aclocal > options '--force' and '--no-force' are supported and works correctly. > ($aclocal_supports_force): Delete, no longer needed. > (run_aclocal): Heavily simply by assuming that aclocal properly creates s/simply/simplify/ > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes. > ** The use of the long-deprecated name 'configure.in' for the autoconf > input file now elicits a warning in the 'obsolete' category. > > +** Older version of aclocal (< 1.8) are no longer supported by autoreconf. s/version/versions/ ACK with those fixes. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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