Re: Results from running autoupdate on gnulib m4 files

2020-09-27 Thread Bruno Haible
Gavin Smith wrote: > * Redefinition of AC_CHECKING in several files to silence AC_CHECK_PROG The changes to m4/csharpcomp.m4, m4/csharpexec.m4, m4/exponentd.m4, m4/javacomp.m4, m4/javaexec.m4 are unnecessary, because they don't cause warnings from 'aclocal' nor from 'autoconf'. I could replace th

Re: Results from running autoupdate on gnulib m4 files

2020-09-27 Thread Paul Eggert
On 9/27/20 7:14 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: It remains my opinion that the correct fix is to convert all of these to AC_CACHE_CHECK and not try to hide any checks from the person running configure. Bruno and I had a conversation on bug-gnulib about this recently, and he is of the opinion that gl_

Re: Results from running autoupdate on gnulib m4 files

2020-09-27 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 6:29 AM Gavin Smith wrote: > Because of the upcoming autoconf 2.70 release gives more warnings, I > checked the other files in gnulib in the m4 directory with > > autoupdate -v *.m4 2>&1 | tee log Thanks for doing this. I was getting set up to do it myself, but I got hung

Results from running autoupdate on gnulib m4 files

2020-09-27 Thread Gavin Smith
Because of the upcoming autoconf 2.70 release gives more warnings, I checked the other files in gnulib in the m4 directory with autoupdate -v *.m4 2>&1 | tee log Fortunately, there are not too many issues (on top of the other issues I already reported). Here are the relevant excerpts from the