> No, I am happy with what we have, it has worked find for 10 years.

I do not like this rejection for the support of the tool "autoreconf". It 
belongs to improvements that happened for the autoconf software in the meantime.


> At the current time, we are focusing on creating new features and correct 
> bugs.

I suggest to consider some updates for your configuration script.
http://bacula.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=bacula/bacula;a=blob;f=bacula/autoconf/configure.in;hb=7a437be1a70b50f472d5f6e0b17daa8796908e0e
http://bacula.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=bacula/bacula;a=blob;f=gui/autoconf/configure.in;h=9de83b09438a589dba5252202a05198139fb6936;hb=7a437be1a70b50f472d5f6e0b17daa8796908e0e

1. The macro "AC_PREREQ" is called too late.

2. The macro "AC_INIT" is called with a wrong/old parameter value.

3. The use of the macro "AC_CONFIG_HEADER" might be obsolete.

4. I recommend to be more explicit where macro expansion will not be required.
   http://autogen.sourceforge.net/acquoting.html
   http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/m4/Quoting-Arguments.html

5. Addition of the check "AC_C_RESTRICT"

6. Checks are missing for the cooperation of multiple data base interfaces (SQL 
engines).
   
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=200911100921.22773.eric%40eb.homelinux.org


The command "autoscan" will show a couple of warnings for missing configuration 
checks. Would any software developer like to fix such potential programming 
errors?

Regards,
Markus

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