On 18/01/2013 13:28, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > While removing those macros seemed quite harmless, because it didn't > put a real burden on the developers (requiring them just to do a quick > edit to configure.ac), it turned out to place an unsustainable burden > on distro packagers who use the latest Automake to bootstrap existing > packages. Many of them still used AM_CONFIG_HEADER, and the removal > of this macro would have forced the packages to patch all those.
FWIW at least on my side, AM_CONFIG_HEADER is not that much of a big deal. It's a simple sed (which we could reasonably apply as a global hack, just not really keen on using said hacks), and the functionality transpose directly. AM_PROG_CC_STDC is a different story so I'd be glad to get that one back. Also for the record, in Gentoo 1.13.1 turns out to be mild in comparison to 1.12 or 1.11 — right now we only have four bugs, and only one still open (which I can fix this afternoon): https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=automake-1.13 While I'm by far not complete with running the tests on our packages, usually I get much more trouble much faster. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
