On Sun, 27 Sep 2020, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 9/27/20 11:23 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Is 'autoupdate' supposed to be safe to use?
I would never trust the output of 'autoupdate', no. It's meant to be
suggestions and/or indications of problems, and is not meant to be
authoritative. Perhaps this should be stated more clearly in the
documentation.
That was my recollection from long ago, but things change. The
Autoconf utilities recommend executing 'autoupdate'.
With 2.69 (and 2.69c), each one of my AC_TRY_COMPILE() statements was
re-written into a form which blows m4's recursion limits. Perhaps I
have somehow formatted them incorrectly, but some of them have been
working fine since perhaps even 1998.
Bob
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