From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KhSts-0000Iw-L0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:39:12 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhStr-0000Im-3q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:39:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhSto-0000IB-IB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:39:09 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36795 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhSto-0000I3-Bk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:39:08 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.183]:49897) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KhStn-0007fz-FZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:39:08 -0400 Received: from [85.180.63.225] (e180063225.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.63.225]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu7) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML2xA-1KhStl47Yr-0002ny; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:39:06 +0200 From: Felix Zielcke To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <1220514312.4167.9.camel@fz.local> References: <1220448464.4164.53.camel@fz.local> <1220485402.5868.8.camel@dv> <1220514312.4167.9.camel@fz.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:39:04 +0200 Message-Id: <1222018744.4080.5.camel@fz.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18nJY8zhtNav06qute8UvJPUTe0THOMbCY30en yTgyL3SPu7ZJ4Dhs3JWPU4+/fbKaVvcv3seUJfGBfE+fwW9uRe zZUvBN9XslBSjReq3UUCiu74z5SZ8mv X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) Subject: Re: [PATCH] update configure.ac to autoconf 2.61 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:39:11 -0000 Well, commited. Am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2008, 09:45 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Am Mittwoch, den 03.09.2008, 19:43 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin: > > > > I don't see any old stuff being removed. I don't see any justification > > for any of the changes. The new code is longer and less readable. I > > don't think AC_TRY_COMPILE is a big problem yet. It's not like it won't > > produce a valid test. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Autoconf-Macro-Index > > AC_TRY_COMPILE is listed as `Obsolete Macro'. > > I attached now even a diff with autoconf 2.62 which I won't commit, but > maybe you or someone else is interested. > Changelog says AC_GNU_SOURCE has been deprecated, though they're > currently no plans to remove it. > > Currently it's not really needed but things get easily forgotten, even I > myself forgot a patch from me .. > We don't need to discuss running `autoupdate' in ./autogen.sh this is > really bad. > The Debian Build System has such a feature too but ftp-masters' reject > packages which uses it by default. > > You only need to run autoconf -Wall then you see. > Ok they're not shown by default, but I don't like to have obsolte > deprecated stuff if it can be easily avoided like in this case. > > > In any case, please try to avoid extra long lines where it can be easily > > avoided. > > I hope the intention is now right, Emacs had a problem with it. > > > Okuji wrote that he uses Autoconf 2.59, so it would be nice to check > > that your changes would still work with that version. > > Luckly it's still avaible in Debian oldstable (sarge) > newest CentOS 5.2 even still has autoconf 2.59 > Changes are the same as with 2.61 so 2.59 seems to be fine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel