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Summary: autoupdate does some nonsensical changes Project: Autoconf Submitted by: haible Submitted on: Mon 05 Oct 2020 12:34:05 AM CEST Category: None Priority: 5 - Normal Severity: 3 - Normal Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Operating System: None _______________________________________________________ Details: In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-09/msg00158.html Zack Weinberg wrote: "The diff produced by autoupdate is mostly not usable as is. In fact, it looks to me more like a todo list for bugs and missing features in autoupdate itself :-/" Here is another example, from GNU gperf. Find the input and the changes by autoupdate 2.69c attached. 1) Changing AC_PREREQ([2.64]) to AC_PREREQ([2.69c]) — or, once 2.70 is released, to AC_PREREQ([2.70]) — is unwelcome, because many distros which run autoreconf will not have autoconf 2.70 is installed. While it is certainly OK to change AC_PREREQ([2.13]) to AC_PREREQ([2.64]) or so, AC_PREREQ([2.69c]) is a too strong requirement. 2) Changing AC_LANG_SAVE() to m4_warn(...) is nonsense. 3) Leaving AC_LANG_SAVE in the output is not good, because autoupdate is meant to eliminate this call. The other parts are helpful, though. _______________________________________________________ File Attachments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon 05 Oct 2020 12:34:06 AM CEST Name: configure.ac.diff Size: 1KiB By: haible <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/download.php?file_id=49921> ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon 05 Oct 2020 12:34:05 AM CEST Name: configure.ac Size: 2KiB By: haible <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/download.php?file_id=49920> _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110324> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/