Re: autoconf 2.72/2.73 on RCS

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, at 12:25 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-04-03 01:00, Frederic Berat wrote:
>> It would have been nice to keep these macro around for backward
>> compatibility. Assuming they are only used by gnulib, they wouldn't
>> need to be kept for too long.
>
> Fair enough. I installed the attached into Autoconf on savannah, so that 
> one should be able to use bleeding-edge Autoconf on the current RCS release.
>
> This patch uses m4_define rather than AU_DEFUN because 
> _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_CODE is defined via m4_define rather than via 
> AC_DEFUN. So the user is not warned that _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES 
> is obsolete. I don't know why _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_CODE doesn't use 
> AC_DEFUN, so I'll cc this to Zack (who wrote that code) to see whether 
> we can change to AC_DEFUN and AU_DEFUN here.

I wasn't expecting anyone to AC_REQUIRE either of these macros, is all.

zw