On 12/29/2012 08:46 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 29/12/2012 17:32, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: >> * configure.ac: Here. The latter has been removed in Automake 1.13. > > Is there any reason for this, > Avoiding to keep too much cruft around the codebase, and smoothing possible future transitions to Automake-NG.
> apart from randomly breaking > perfectly-working packages? > > The right way to do this is to rely on the autoupdate machinery. > I thought I had deprecated this macro in the 1.12.x series already, with proper warnings. Wasn't that the case? If not, I apologize for the inconvenience; while it's worth noting that the AM_CONFIG_HEADER macro has been clearly deprecated in the manual for a long time, I understand that that kind of deprecation can be easily missed, and a runtime warning is much more helpful and user-friendly. Stefano
