Re: [PATCH] Update bfd to autoconf 2.5x, take 2

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>]

neroden@fastmail.fm (Nathanael Nerode) writes:

> This performs the minimal update to autoconf 2.59 for bfd; another important
> step in updating the whole of src to 2.59.  This is the revised version,
> which actually handles bfd install correctly.
> 
> Built on i686-pc-linux-gnu with no serious differences in generated files.
> 
> There are most definitely further cleanups which I might make later.
> 
> OK to commit?
> 
> 	* acinclude.m4: Require AC_CANONICAL_TARGET, not AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM.
> 	Include ../config/acx.m4 and use ACX_NONCANONICAL_* where appropriate;
> 	replace uses of *_alias with *_noncanonical.
> 	* aclocal.m4: Rebuild with aclocal 1.4p6.
> 	* Makefile.in: Rebuild with automake 1.4p6.
> 	* doc/Makefile.in: Rebuild with automake 1.4p6.
> 	* configure.in: Autoupdate with autoupdate 2.59.
> 	* config.in: Regenerate with autoheader 2.59.
> 	* configure: Regnerate with autoconf 2.59.

I think this should be OK.

I'd like to point out to the other maintainers that this means that we
must start using a different version of autoconf, not the old ones we
have been using all these years.  I think that is a step forward.  But
it is a change of procedure.

Nathanael, please wait until Monday to commit this, to give people a
chance to comment.

Thanks for doing this work.

Ian