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

On Wed, Feb 18, 2026, at 1:56 PM, pluto--- via Bug reports for autoconf wrote:
> "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

I'd be reluctant to make build operations talk to the network, even in
rare circumstances (perhaps _especially_ in rare circumstances).

zw