Re: Warning category skew between Autoconf and Automake - workaround in autoreconf?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Clearly ChannelDefs.pm should be brought back into sync between the
> two projects, but that will only fix the problem after *both* Autoconf
> and Automake do a release.  So I’m wondering whether it would make
> sense to merge this distributor’s patch to avoid supplying -Wcross to
> automake -- perhaps generalized to arbitrary warning categories.  What
> do you think?

Has it ever been an expectation that Autoconf and Automake are of a 
similar vintage?  Even if a newer Automake is released, it is not 
required to be used.

It seems like the patch may be required.

Bob
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