Re: [ulogd2 PATCH 13/13] build: bump autoconf version to 2.71

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On 2021-10-30, at 19:21:07 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 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.

Did wonder if bumping to 2.71 might be a bit aggressive. :)

> Unless there is a _specific new shiny m4 macro_ that is invoked
> somewhere, I cannot see a reason to gratuitiously bump PREREQ.

Fair enough.  Don't seem to be any signficant differences in the
generated files.  Will drop this in v2.

J.

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