On 10/05/2020 02:10, Karl Berry wrote:
+Although we would like to remove this function from Automake, since it's +not used, that would break older versions of Autoconf, which seems +gratuitious. So we leave it, unchanged.
Autoconf has its own copy of this function, so why would it be affected by the removal of the function from Automake?
Cheers, Harald van Dijk