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Re: 10-ac-lang
On Mar 21, 2000, Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br> writes:
>>> ! I see no smiley above. Are you serious?
Alexandre> Yup
> :( Do you consider warnings to be such a big deal?
Sure. They suggest the maintainer must change his configure.in, and
their users may complain about it. So, yes, they are a big deal.
Maybe autoconf should only suggest the changes with -pedantic, too.
> Well, I'm ready to give a try to implement use of --trace, but you
> seem to wish that Automake does not rely on it.
I want it not to *require* it. It should certainly use it if it is
available.
> Likewise, I suppose you don't want libtool to use
> AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS_PRE and POST.
No problem with that.
Alexandre> see much point in pushing for a new release of autoconf.
> You hurt me man :)
Come on. Of course autoconf can be used by itself, but there are
many, many packages that use it together with automake, and, if
automake doesn't support the new autoconf, they just won't be able to
upgrade. So, what's the point of releasing it?
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