On 16 September 2011 22:21, Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org> wrote:
> On 16 September 2011 21:03, Peter Simons <sim...@cryp.to> wrote:
>> Hi Reuben,
>>
>> > Would anyone object if I obsoleted this macro in autoconf-archive?
>>
>> personally, I believe that marking our (inferior) solutions obsolete is
>> the way to go.
>
> Done in autoconf-archive; I'll submit a patch to autoconf separately..
Following, a patch to autoconf git head to remove the mention of
AC_DEFINE_DIR from the manual:
>From cf8962fe0654d39dc628ee3df8753d15275534cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:24:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: remove mention of non-GCS-compliant AC_DEFINE_DIR.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Directories): Update. The macro was
in any case renamed AX_DEFINE_DIR, and is now obsolete in
autoconf-archive.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
doc/autoconf.texi | 9 ---------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 76b283c..753d066 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2011-09-16 Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org>
+
+ docs: remove mention of non-GCS-compliant AC_DEFINE_DIR.
+ * doc/autoconf.texi (Defining Directories): Update. The macro was
+ in any case renamed AX_DEFINE_DIR, and is now obsolete in
+ autoconf-archive.
+
2011-09-16 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
docs: fix typo in shell example
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index f202c10..fb2cd11 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -25528,15 +25528,6 @@ standard directory variables defined,
@pxref{configmake,,, gnulib, GNU
Gnulib}.
@item
-Use @code{AC_DEFINE} but have @command{configure} compute the literal
-value of @code{datadir} and others. Many people have wrapped macros to
-automate this task; for an example, see the macro @code{AC_DEFINE_DIR} from
-the @uref{http://@/www.gnu.org/@/software/@/autoconf-archive/, Autoconf Macro
-Archive}.
-
-This solution does not conform to the GNU Coding Standards.
-
-@item
Note that all the previous solutions hard wire the absolute name of
these directories in the executables, which is not a good property. You
may try to compute the names relative to @code{prefix}, and try to
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