Re: Renaming old macros

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Reuben,

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:52:52PM CEST:
> According to Reuben Thomas on 8/11/2009 6:31 PM:
> > Further to my question about AU_ALIAS, we noticed at autoconf-archive
> > that by defining AC_DEFUN/AU_ALIAS in the new macro file we can't get
> > aclocal --diff to notice that something has changed. What should we do
> > to somehow signal the new name to users of the old macro?
> 
> aclocal is managed by automake; redirecting your question there.  My first
> thought is whether you also bumped the #serial number in your .m4 file?

Can you post a small example to reproduce this?

(Actually, I've never actively used --diff, so I'm interested in typical
use cases.)

Thanks,
Ralf