Re: autoconf-2.69c released [beta]

[Bob Friesenhahn]

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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