Re: possible bug: no escaping for preprocessor macro STDC_HEADERS warning

"Zack Weinberg" <[email protected]> wrote:

> ... When building from a git checkout, the build scripts (not
> just the bootstrap script) inspect the git *history* to determine
> Autoconf's own version number, and that doesn't work with a shallow
> clone.

Is this something that could/should be fixed someday?  I'm thinking
of something along the lines of

  if // in a git checkout, but there is no history
  then // fetch the history from the remote repo
  fi

(and no, I am not sufficiently familiar with either git or autoconf
to flesh out those // descriptions).