On 12/30/2012 10:35 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 29/12/2012 21:43, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto: >> 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. > > Two lines of code are not "cruft". It's only cruft if it happens > _outside_ the definition of AM_CONFIG_HEADER itself. > >>> 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? > > Deprecating is different from letting autoupdate convert it automatically. > At any rate, I agree the error message caused by the abrupt removal is horrible. I'll soon post a patch to have still-exiting uses of AM_CONFIG_HEADER give a clear error message (as is done for the AM_C_PROTOTYPES since Automake 1.12). Making that fix quickly available will be a good reason for a 1.13.1 release.
> [SNIP] Regards, Stefano
