Re: time for Autoconf 2.72 (was: On time64 and Large File Support)

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:59:49 -0700
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.c-std-porting
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/17/23 16:47, Sam James wrote:
> Clang 16 was released today. Unfortunately, all released versions of
> autoconf still generate configure scripts which are incompatible with it.

Presumably "./configure CC='clang -std=gnu17" is a workaround, though 
admittedly this is awkward.

> Is anyone aware of any issues with master as it is? I've been running
> with it for months.

Thanks for the info. I've been too swamped to shepherd a release, 
unfortunately. But we should do one soon.