Re: bug#13378: Backward-compatibility in the autotools

On 01/12/2013 04:45 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: As a rule of thumb on when to remove a macro - I would personally like > being able to write a configure script that works on both RHEL 5 (or > CentOS 5) (autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.6) as well as rawhide (eventually > automake 1.14 and beyond),

Re: Backward-compatibility in the autotools

[dropping the bug report; this is turning into a philosophical discussion more appropriate to just the mailing list, unrelated to the original bug at hand] On 01/11/2013 11:45 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> As a rule of thumb on when to remove a macro - I would personally like >> being able to w

Backward-compatibility in the autotools (was: Re: [PATCH] compile: use 'compile' script when "-c -o" is used with losing compilers)

On 01/11/2013 07:19 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/10/2013 06:33 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Reference: >> >> > >> @acindex AC_PROG_CC_C_O >> -This is like @code{AC_PROG_CC_C_O}, but it generates its results in >> -the manner required by