Re: [PATCH] compat: reinstate AM_CONFIG_HEADER and AM_PROG_CC_STDC

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

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.

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