Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some Automake testsuite tests currently use > ./configure ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=no > > to force use of ansi2knr. I know the topic is becoming more and more > obsolete,
It's not "more and more obsolete". It's obsolete, period. Nobody uses K&R compilers any more for real work, and this has been true for several years. Only software archeologists care about that sort of thing, and software archeology is outside the scope of Autoconf. That being said, the Autoconf patch looks OK to me, if only to cater to Automake; except the NEWS item is a bit cryptic. How about this news item instead? ** AC_PROG_CC_STDC Passing 'ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=no' to 'configure' now sets ac_cv_prog_cc_c99 and ac_cv_prog_cc_c89 to 'no' as well, for backward compatibility with obsolete K&R tests in the Automake test suite.
