Subject: Re: bug#9714: [PATCH] maint: remove vestigial de-ANSI-fication support
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
To: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:58:10 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> The support for automatic de-ANSI-fication has been deprecated in
> automake 1.11.2, and will be removed altogether in automake 1.12.
> Also, coreutils does not use the `ansi2knr' option since at least
> 2003-03-14 (commit b9fa45f2b01d0e395b7ddd845ebabb9528cf3f12 "remove
> ansi2knr junk", and a few preceding commits).
>
> * /m4/jm-macros.m4 (gl_CHECK_ALL_TYPES): Don't require
> `AM_C_PROTOTYPES' anymore.  This is required to avoid a (mostly
> spurious) warning from automake.
> ---
>  m4/jm-macros.m4 |    5 -----
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/m4/jm-macros.m4 b/m4/jm-macros.m4
> index 58b000d..40ff3e1 100644
> --- a/m4/jm-macros.m4
> +++ b/m4/jm-macros.m4
> @@ -193,11 +193,6 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_CHECK_ALL_HEADERS],
>  # This macro must be invoked before any tests that run the compiler.
>  AC_DEFUN([gl_CHECK_ALL_TYPES],
>  [
> -  dnl This test must precede tests of compiler characteristics like
> -  dnl that for the inline keyword, since it may change the degree to
> -  dnl which the compiler supports such features.
> -  AC_REQUIRE([AM_C_PROTOTYPES])

Thanks.
I did that a week or so ago:

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=88873501cff9ed9