Re: [PATCH] compat: reinstate AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDC

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 01/18/2013 01:33 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> On 18/01/2013 13:28, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>
>> While removing those macros seemed quite harmless, because it didn't
>> put a real burden on the developers (requiring them just to do a quick
>> edit to configure.ac), it turned out to place an unsustainable burden
>> on distro packagers who use the latest Automake to bootstrap existing
>> packages.  Many of them still used AM_CONFIG_HEADER, and the removal
>> of this macro would have forced the packages to patch all those.
> 
> FWIW at least on my side, AM_CONFIG_HEADER is not that much of a big
> deal. It's a simple sed (which we could reasonably apply as a global
> hack, just not really keen on using said hacks), and the functionality
> transpose directly.
> 
> AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a different story so I'd be glad to get that one back.
> 
> Also for the record, in Gentoo 1.13.1 turns out to be mild in comparison
> to 1.12 or 1.11 — right now we only have four bugs, and only one still
> open (which I can fix this afternoon):
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=automake-1.13
> 
> While I'm by far not complete with running the tests on our packages,
> usually I get much more trouble much faster.
> 
I'm glad to now the situation isn't as bleak as I feared.  Still, the
Fedora packagers have already decided to patch their Automake 1.13.1
to reinstate the AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDC macros (plus other
macros that I don't believe it's worth worrying about though):

  <http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg176098.html>
  <http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=ffe6bc39>

So, rather than having one more incompatibility floating around, I'd
rather mirror that change (or its relevant part) in mainstream.

Thanks,
  Stefano