On 08 Jun 2015 10:59, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 05:32:32AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Newer versions of autotools have started warning when using the old > > configure.in name. > > Note that I ship a version of configure (and keep one checked in to > git) because I do not trust the autoconf maintainers' ability to > maintain backwards compatibility, having gotten badly burned in the > past. I am currently using autoconf 2.69, and people who try to rerun > autoconf on some other version of autoconf are venturing into > unsupported territory. It may work; it may screw up in amazing ways. > Some autoconf macro may silently assume that some feature is present > when it is not, or vice versa. > > And if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. :-) that's fine, but it doesn't really matter to this patch -- it should be configure.ac and not configure.in. the version of autoconf you're using certainly supports the newer name. -mike
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