Requiring newer autoconf for X.Org packages?

Matthieu Herrb matthieu at herrb.eu
Wed Aug 31 08:08:14 UTC 2022


On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:42:39PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
> The easy solution is to use autoconf 2.70 or newer, since that release added
> _OPENBSD_SOURCE to the defines added by AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=c467efab94cd2d0331655
>

Hi,

autoconf 2.71 complains about obsolete contructs in X.Org's
configure.ac : AC_PROG_LIBTOOL AC_PROG_CC_C99 and suggests to run
autoupdate to fix.

This will trigger a lot of new packages releases :-)

-- 
Matthieu Herrb


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