On Saturday 2021-10-30 18:01, Jeremy Sowden wrote: >diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac >index ea245dae3796..8d18cc6eb7fb 100644 >--- a/configure.ac >+++ b/configure.ac >@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ > dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. > AC_INIT([ulogd], [2.0.7]) >-AC_PREREQ([2.50]) >+AC_PREREQ([2.71]) > AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux]) > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall foreign tar-pax no-dist-gzip dist-bzip2 1.10b subdir-objects]) > AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h]) That's not a good move; it puts unnecessary stones on the road to building from git (i.e. with full autoreconf) on e.g. SUSE 15.X (and some other distros I am sure) that only have autoconf 2.69 or .65 or whatever. Unless there is a _specific new shiny m4 macro_ that is invoked somewhere, I cannot see a reason to gratuitiously bump PREREQ.
