Thursday, May 30, 2024

Re: NEW: autoconf 2.72

On 2024/05/29 11:52:49 +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2024 09:14:43 +0100,
> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> >
> > Reattached to make it easier for anyone who wants to look.
> >
> > I'm not familiar enough with m4 to know if the changes in
> > patch-configure make sense.
> >

same for me, it's a bit over my head

> To make it easy for review I made diff between 2.71 and 2.72.
>
> It seems trivial and srigthforward with expection of two hunks, both of them
> seems to related to remove check for GNU M4, and the code which is removed
> as updated to with code base which requires at least M4 1.4.8.

...but since they match what we do for 2.71 I guess it's fine :)

> [...]
> So, as far as I understand it (compiled output of m4 is quite difficult to
> understand BTW) everything is legitim and fine.
>
> Thus, I had brifly tested in ot -current/amd64 and confirm that it works.

Same here, I tested with a few projects I had around (make distclean;
export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.72; ./autogen.sh && ./configure) and works
just as fine as 2.71.


Thanks!

Omar Polo

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