Re: Please drop autoconf-2.13-compatible cross-compile detection

2018-04-20 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/20/2018 02:08 PM, Niels Möller wrote: Can we please delete the fragile transitioning rules now? I'd favor that, too. Does anybody have time to write a good patch for this? Most of the work would be updating the documentation and test cases, I expect.

Please drop autoconf-2.13-compatible cross-compile detection

2018-04-20 Thread Niels Möller
According to the autoconf manual, https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Hosts-and-Cross_002dCompilation That's the short documentation. To ease the transition between 2.13 and its successors, a more complicated scheme is implemented. Do not rely on the following, as it w