>>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Earnie> --- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -8<-
>> We have to keep AC_CAN_SYS for backward compatibility.
>>
Earnie> -8<-
Earnie> I see this backward compatibility brought up quite often. Is
Earnie> there/should there be a switch to allow/disallow the
Earnie> deprecated macros?
-W obsolete,error will make it :)
Earnie> I would think that the deprecated macros would be error and
Earnie> abort by default unless a switch --allow-deprecated (or what
Earnie> ever) be given. This would help to clean up the configure.in
Earnie> scripts that still use them but would allow the user to use
Earnie> them if wanted.
Nope, people want to be able to run autoreconf in an old package just
to run a newer ./configure. They don't want to fight with autoconf.
Sniff.
Akim
