Re: [PATCH] update configure.ac to autoconf 2.61

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2008, 12:49 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin:

> I'm fine with the shorter patch, but I'd like you to wait a couple of
> days in case there are any objections.

Vesa said already on IRC to me that it's fine for me to but he suggests
waiting vor Okuji or Marco which I wanted to do anyway (at least with
the 2.61 requirement)

Now 2.59 shouldn't be any problem at all but yeah just in case :)

> By the way, config.h.in is a generated file, so changes to it don't need
> to be published.  The same applies to configure and *.mk files.

Yep Autoheader generates it, I just wanted to show the difference with
the newer `AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS' in case someone is interested :)
I saw it now even in the docs it's only supported with autoconf >= 2.60

and because I just don't know enough if it would be safe for us to just
start using it I downgraded autoconf to 2.61 for `autupdate'.

It would be better if we use for the SVN ./configure only one autoconf
version.

I just noticed that with current SVN and a ./autogen.sh with autoconf
2.62 creates the config.h.in in my 2.62 patch, which is the only
difference.
So this means that AC_GNU_SOURCE will be in the future just an alias to
it.
A little thing we maybe shouldn't forget totally :)
But for now this is really too early to change configure.ac to it.

-- 
Felix Zielcke