Re: PATCH: Support autoconf 2.50 in libtool.m4

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hi again Paolo!

On Monday 18 June 2001  4:32 pm, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This patch is an autoupdated (and manualfixed...)
> version of libtool.m4 to work fine with autoconf 2.50.
> It passes autoconf -W obsolete.
>
> In particular, obsoleted macros have been updated
> and backquotes are not quoted anymore in AC_MSG_xxx.
> I have also used AC_MSG_NOTICE for the `creating
> libtool' message

Again, I don't want to apply this patch in the 1.4 branch, since it breaks 
compatibility with autoconf-2.13.  However, I am inclined to have 1.5 use 
autoconf 2.50 (or 2.51).  I would accept a similar patch against HEAD unless 
anyone here has a good reason not to take advantage of the improved features 
of the latest autoconf?

For example, the language stack works better, the trace facility makes 
debugging much easier, the AC_REQUIRE bug is fixed (there is a workaround in 
the toplevel configure.in but the demo configures are still affected), and we 
would be able to move generation of libtool itself into config.status.  Are 
there any counter arguments?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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