Requiring newer autoconf for X.Org packages?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 8/31/22 01:08, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> 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.

Which doesn't actually work, as the calls are in xorg-macros.m4,
not actually in our configure.ac files.

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

Many of our packages have unreleased autoconf or autogen.sh cleanup already.

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