GNU bug report logs - #11637
[PATCH] build: use configure.ac, not configure.in, as Autoconf input

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Message #8 received at 11637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 11637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#11637: [PATCH] build: use configure.ac, not configure.in,
	as Autoconf input
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:25:44 +0300

> From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed,  6 Jun 2012 13:30:29 +0200
> Cc: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
> 
> The Autoconf documentation has been advising for years to prefer
> 'configure.in' over 'configure.ac', and future version of Autoconf
> will start issuing runtime warnings if 'configure.in' is still used.
> See commit 'v2.69-4-g560f16b' of 2012-05-06, "general: deprecate
> 'configure.in' as autoconf input" in the Autoconf git repository).

Thanks.  We already have a patch for this, see

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11603

If you have suggestions for the changes there, please follow up at
that bug report.

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