GNU bug report logs - #8493
autoconf fails if env var U set

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 8493-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-autoconf <at> gnu.org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl <at> sss.pgh.pa.us>, Tim Wallace <twallace <at> ll.mit.edu>,
	Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 8493-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: autoconf fails if env var U set
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 17:19:08 +0100

[Me going through oldish backlogs ...]

On Thursday 14 April 2011, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 04/13/2011 11:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > If the intended use is only for ansi2knr, I'd even argue that it
> > should be off by default ... how many people care about ansi2knr
> > anymore?
> 
> Nobody.  It would be fine to remove the ansi2knr stuff from Autoconf.
> 
> 
I agree.  For what is worth, support for the ansi2knr stuff has been
deprecated in the automake `maint' branch, and removed altogether
in the `master' branch, so I'm closing this bug report (for what
concerns automake).

Regards,
  Stefano
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