On 5/26/22 1:49 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Also, running autoupdate forces the minimum pre-req to be autoconf >> 2.71 because it replaces other stuff... > Bleah, to that part. 2.71 isn't even available on Fedora Core 35 which > was released 6 months ago. > I'm afraid this will break lots of builds in not-very-old environments. > > I'm inclined to look into whether I can just replace the obsolete > macros to shut up the warnings for now, does that seem reasonable? > > And then bumping the 2.50 minimum to the 8-year-old 2.69 is probably wise ;) > > Thanks, > -Eric Actually, I think that 2.71 from autoupdate is gratuitous, all your changes seem fine under the (ancient) 2.69. So I'm inclined to merge this patch as is, but with a 2.69 minimum, as the current 2.50 version requirement is for something released around the turn of the century... Any concerns or complaints? -Eric
