Re: documentation of autoconf macros

2007-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Thomas Dickey on 8/25/2007 7:44 AM: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: > >> And that aside, there is the NEWS file which pretty much tells you >> exactly which macros were added and obsoleted in each autoconf release. > > "prett

Re: documentation of autoconf macros

2007-08-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: And that aside, there is the NEWS file which pretty much tells you exactly which macros were added and obsoleted in each autoconf release. "pretty much" isn't good enough odds to cross the street against traffic. (fwiw, autoconf developers aren't inter

Re: documentation of autoconf macros

2007-08-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Vincent Torri on 8/25/2007 5:32 AM: Hello Vincent, > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html > > when I'm writing autofoo stuff. But there is no mention of the first > version of autoconf when a macro appeared, The NE

Re: documentation of autoconf macros

2007-08-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Vincent Torri wrote: > i'm usually using that doc: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html > > when I'm writing autofoo stuff. But there is no mention of the first > version of autoconf when a macro appeared, and it sometimes annoyes me as > I don't know which version of au

documentation of autoconf macros

2007-08-25 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, i'm usually using that doc: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html when I'm writing autofoo stuff. But there is no mention of the first version of autoconf when a macro appeared, and it sometimes annoyes me as I don't know which version of autoconf I have to request (