Re: [PATCH] init: warn against obsolete usage of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 05/01/2012 06:11 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Support for the two- and three-arguments invocation forms of the
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro, as in:
> 
>   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION)
> 
> or:
> 
>   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE($PACKAGE, $VERSION, NODEFINE)
> 
> will be removed in the next major Automake release (1.13).
> 
> Such usages have already been deprecated in the documentation
> starting from commit v1.11-2015-ge99690a of 23-02-2012 "docs,
> news: document planned removal of obsolete macros and features".
> 
> We now start giving runtime warnings as well (in the 'obsolete'
> category).
> 
> * NEWS: Update.
> * m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Report the two- and three-arguments
> form invocation.
> * automake.in (scan_autoconf_traces): Likewise.
> * doc/automake.texi: Minor adjustments.  Add an @anchor to the
> location where it's described how to modernize outdated invocation
> of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, so that it can be referenced from automake
> warning/error messages.
> * t/aminit-moreargs-deprecation.sh: New test.
> * tests/list-of-tests.mk: Add it.
> * tests/ac-output-old.tap: Adjust by calling automake with the
> warnings in the 'obsolete' category disabled.
> * t/backcompat.test: Likewise.
> * t/backcompat3.test: Likewise.
> * t/backcompat5.test: Likewise.
> * t/backcompat6.test: Likewise.
> * t/version.test: Likewise.
> * t/version2.test: Likewise.
> * t/pr2.test: Modernize style of AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> invocations, and use proper m4 quoting.
> * t/pr87.test: Likewise.
> * t/confsub.test: Likewise.
> * t/install2.test: Likewise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
> ---
> 
>  I will push this in 72 hours.
> 
I've rebased on latest maint, and pushed.

Regards,
  Stefano