Re: autoconf-2.69c released [beta]

2020-09-25 Thread Gavin Smith
> * Warnings about obsolete constructs are now on by default. > They can be turned off with '-Wno-obsolete'. > I have tried building the git development version of Texinfo with the new autoconf, but am deluged with warnings. I get the following warnings from autoconf: configure.ac:87: warnin

Re: Debian archive rebuild with Autoconf 2.69c

2020-09-25 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Zack, I recommend also contacting Jonathan Perkin of the NetBSD 'pkgsrc' project. The NetBSD 'pkgsrc' project (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkgsrc and https://www.pkgsrc.org/) actually supports far more operating systems than NetBSD and Jonathan Perkin does builds for many of the suppor

Re: Debian archive rebuild with Autoconf 2.69c

2020-09-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 8:24 AM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 24/09/20 at 16:41 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > I'm managing the long-overdue release of Autoconf 2.70, we just put > > out a second beta and I am thinking that it would be interesting to do > > a Debian archive rebuild with it and see w

Re: Debian archive rebuild with Autoconf 2.69c

2020-09-25 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Zack, On 24/09/20 at 16:41 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Hi Lucas, > > I'm managing the long-overdue release of Autoconf 2.70, we just put > out a second beta and I am thinking that it would be interesting to do > a Debian archive rebuild with it and see what breaks. I was advised > to contac