> The patch to m4/lock.m4 has this problem, and also another one: lock.m4 is
> used as part of the gettext infrastructure, which requires only autoconf
> >= 2.54 and should not include extensions.m4. - Can you change m4/lock.m4
> to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS only in autoconf version >= 2.62, and
> AC_GNU_SOURCE otherwise? Something like
>
> m4_if(m4_version_compare(m4_defn([m4_PACKAGE_VERSION]),[2.62]),[-1],
> [AC_REQUIRE([AC_GNU_SOURCE])],
> [AC_REQUIRE([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS])])
Why not the simpler:
m4_ifndef([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS],
[AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS], [AC_GNU_SOURCE])])
Anyways, I feel uncomfortable using undocumented macros, so my first
order of business is patching Autoconf to document m4_version_compare
and m4_PACKAGE_VERSION.
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Eric Blake
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