-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [adding m4-discuss, in case anyone on that list wants to chime in]
According to Ralf Wildenhues on 7/28/2008 10:40 AM: | Hello Eric, | | Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: [the current snapshot in preparation for m4 1.6 warn on defn(undefined), which in turn means that it cannot build autoconf 2.62 and earlier out of the box] |> And this means that m4 1.6 can't |> be released until after autoconf 2.63 (not that it is too hard to ensure that, |> as I help maintain both...) | | But you don't maintain all Autoconf and M4 packages of all the distros | out there. For them this is going to be an additional burden to bear. | Esp. as older Autoconf isn't even buildable with m4 1.6. Hmm. I'm still thinking on this one; maybe the following intermediate approach would work: if --fatal-warning is turned on (as it is in autoconf), stay silent, or at least don't affect exit status; but in default mode, throw the warning. I've already posted an autoconf patch that distros can apply to 2.62 to work with m4 1.6 if I don't change anything, and the patch should port easily to 2.59-2.61. I guess the issue is still open to discussion up until after autoconf 2.63 is released and m4 1.6 is closer to ready. | | I fear that this change will just cause m4 1.6 to not be adopted until GCC, | binutils, python, and other packages I'm not aware of have migrated to newer | Autoconf. That's okay by me - the distros are allowed to be behind the curve. But hopefully the speed improvements of m4 1.6 will start to sway people to upgrade. | | Cheers, and sorry for sounding so negative, | Ralf That's all right; hearing the counter viewpoint is healthy, so that development doesn't get too out of hand. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiPz8MACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDP/wCgqHMyeDgIEOWlosk2BpzdGArf TukAn11y3j1l9WySlRT4iI//OPAMJTf+ =g2E8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ m4-discuss mailing list m4-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/m4-discuss
