On Sat, 25 Aug 2018, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
Indeed. When considering addition of a new macro call to configure.ac it often requires a lot of digging (usually from NEWS) to find out if using that macro is safe with current minimum autoconf version requirement. It would be really good if the documentation about macros would say what version of autoconf introduced them, or made an API change (such as starting to support additional parameters) to them.
The most recent Autoconf release is quite a long time ago (2012, and it is 2018 already) so these concerns are a surprise to me.
Why is it so difficult to support a version which has been stable for 6 years already?
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