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Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:39:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.4] ([177.194.48.209]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id d1sm10903620qtq.94.2021.02.15.05.39.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:39:49 -0800 (PST) To: Naohiro Tamura , libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Mike Frysinger References: <20210215123137.204048-1-naohirot@fujitsu.com> <0820aeae-41c4-e751-e6b2-aaa83921fc41@linaro.org> From: Adhemerval Zanella Autocrypt: addr=adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mQINBFcVGkoBEADiQU2x/cBBmAVf5C2d1xgz6zCnlCefbqaflUBw4hB/bEME40QsrVzWZ5Nq 8kxkEczZzAOKkkvv4pRVLlLn/zDtFXhlcvQRJ3yFMGqzBjofucOrmdYkOGo0uCaoJKPT186L NWp53SACXguFJpnw4ODI64ziInzXQs/rUJqrFoVIlrPDmNv/LUv1OVPKz20ETjgfpg8MNwG6 iMizMefCl+RbtXbIEZ3TE/IaDT/jcOirjv96lBKrc/pAL0h/O71Kwbbp43fimW80GhjiaN2y WGByepnkAVP7FyNarhdDpJhoDmUk9yfwNuIuESaCQtfd3vgKKuo6grcKZ8bHy7IXX1XJj2X/ BgRVhVgMHAnDPFIkXtP+SiarkUaLjGzCz7XkUn4XAGDskBNfbizFqYUQCaL2FdbW3DeZqNIa nSzKAZK7Dm9+0VVSRZXP89w71Y7JUV56xL/PlOE+YKKFdEw+gQjQi0e+DZILAtFjJLoCrkEX w4LluMhYX/X8XP6/C3xW0yOZhvHYyn72sV4yJ1uyc/qz3OY32CRy+bwPzAMAkhdwcORA3JPb kPTlimhQqVgvca8m+MQ/JFZ6D+K7QPyvEv7bQ7M+IzFmTkOCwCJ3xqOD6GjX3aphk8Sr0dq3 4Awlf5xFDAG8dn8Uuutb7naGBd/fEv6t8dfkNyzj6yvc4jpVxwARAQABtElBZGhlbWVydmFs IFphbmVsbGEgTmV0dG8gKExpbmFybyBWUE4gS2V5KSA8YWRoZW1lcnZhbC56YW5lbGxhQGxp bmFyby5vcmc+iQI3BBMBCAAhBQJXFRpKAhsDBQsJCAcDBRUKCQgLBRYCAwEAAh4BAheAAAoJ EKqx7BSnlIjv0e8P/1YOYoNkvJ+AJcNUaM5a2SA9oAKjSJ/M/EN4Id5Ow41ZJS4lUA0apSXW NjQg3VeVc2RiHab2LIB4MxdJhaWTuzfLkYnBeoy4u6njYcaoSwf3g9dSsvsl3mhtuzm6aXFH /Qsauav77enJh99tI4T+58rp0EuLhDsQbnBic/ukYNv7sQV8dy9KxA54yLnYUFqH6pfH8Lly sTVAMyi5Fg5O5/hVV+Z0Kpr+ZocC1YFJkTsNLAW5EIYSP9ftniqaVsim7MNmodv/zqK0IyDB GLLH1kjhvb5+6ySGlWbMTomt/or/uvMgulz0bRS+LUyOmlfXDdT+t38VPKBBVwFMarNuREU2 69M3a3jdTfScboDd2ck1u7l+QbaGoHZQ8ZNUrzgObltjohiIsazqkgYDQzXIMrD9H19E+8fw kCNUlXxjEgH/Kg8DlpoYJXSJCX0fjMWfXywL6ZXc2xyG/hbl5hvsLNmqDpLpc1CfKcA0BkK+ k8R57fr91mTCppSwwKJYO9T+8J+o4ho/CJnK/jBy1pWKMYJPvvrpdBCWq3MfzVpXYdahRKHI ypk8m4QlRlbOXWJ3TDd/SKNfSSrWgwRSg7XCjSlR7PNzNFXTULLB34sZhjrN6Q8NQZsZnMNs TX8nlGOVrKolnQPjKCLwCyu8PhllU8OwbSMKskcD1PSkG6h3r0AquQINBFcVGkoBEACgAdbR Ck+fsfOVwT8zowMiL3l9a2DP3Eeak23ifdZG+8Avb/SImpv0UMSbRfnw/N81IWwlbjkjbGTu oT37iZHLRwYUFmA8fZX0wNDNKQUUTjN6XalJmvhdz9l71H3WnE0wneEM5ahu5V1L1utUWTyh VUwzX1lwJeV3vyrNgI1kYOaeuNVvq7npNR6t6XxEpqPsNc6O77I12XELic2+36YibyqlTJIQ V1SZEbIy26AbC2zH9WqaKyGyQnr/IPbTJ2Lv0dM3RaXoVf+CeK7gB2B+w1hZummD21c1Laua +VIMPCUQ+EM8W9EtX+0iJXxI+wsztLT6vltQcm+5Q7tY+HFUucizJkAOAz98YFucwKefbkTp eKvCfCwiM1bGatZEFFKIlvJ2QNMQNiUrqJBlW9nZp/k7pbG3oStOjvawD9ZbP9e0fnlWJIsj 6c7pX354Yi7kxIk/6gREidHLLqEb/otuwt1aoMPg97iUgDV5mlNef77lWE8vxmlY0FBWIXuZ yv0XYxf1WF6dRizwFFbxvUZzIJp3spAao7jLsQj1DbD2s5+S1BW09A0mI/1DjB6EhNN+4bDB SJCOv/ReK3tFJXuj/HbyDrOdoMt8aIFbe7YFLEExHpSk+HgN05Lg5TyTro8oW7TSMTk+8a5M kzaH4UGXTTBDP/g5cfL3RFPl79ubXwARAQABiQIfBBgBCAAJBQJXFRpKAhsMAAoJEKqx7BSn lIjvI/8P/jg0jl4Tbvg3B5kT6PxJOXHYu9OoyaHLcay6Cd+ZrOd1VQQCbOcgLFbf4Yr+rE9l mYsY67AUgq2QKmVVbn9pjvGsEaz8UmfDnz5epUhDxC6yRRvY4hreMXZhPZ1pbMa6A0a/WOSt AgFj5V6Z4dXGTM/lNManr0HjXxbUYv2WfbNt3/07Db9T+GZkpUotC6iknsTA4rJi6u2ls0W9 1UIvW4o01vb4nZRCj4rni0g6eWoQCGoVDk/xFfy7ZliR5B+3Z3EWRJcQskip/QAHjbLa3pml xAZ484fVxgeESOoaeC9TiBIp0NfH8akWOI0HpBCiBD5xaCTvR7ujUWMvhsX2n881r/hNlR9g fcE6q00qHSPAEgGr1bnFv74/1vbKtjeXLCcRKk3Ulw0bY1OoDxWQr86T2fZGJ/HIZuVVBf3+ gaYJF92GXFynHnea14nFFuFgOni0Mi1zDxYH/8yGGBXvo14KWd8JOW0NJPaCDFJkdS5hu0VY 7vJwKcyHJGxsCLU+Et0mryX8qZwqibJIzu7kUJQdQDljbRPDFd/xmGUFCQiQAncSilYOcxNU EMVCXPAQTteqkvA+gNqSaK1NM9tY0eQ4iJpo+aoX8HAcn4sZzt2pfUB9vQMTBJ2d4+m/qO6+ cFTAceXmIoFsN8+gFN3i8Is3u12u8xGudcBPvpoy4OoG Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replaced obsoleted AC_HELP_STRING to AS_HELP_STRING Message-ID: <060cf851-b2c9-a608-7dbb-7f7a4636ea6a@linaro.org> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:39:47 -0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:39:53 -0000 On 15/02/2021 10:29, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 15 Feb 2021 09:59, Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha wrote: >> On 15/02/2021 09:31, Naohiro Tamura wrote: >>> This patch replaced obsoleted AC_HELP_STRING to AS_HELP_STRING. >>> As of Glibc 2.33, INSTALL says "GNU 'autoconf' 2.69 (exactly)" is >>> required. So we can safely replace obsoleted macro without worrying >>> about older autoconf. >>> This change doesn't affect the contents of "configure" file. >> >> If this does not change or improve configure, why change configure.ac >> then? > > why wait for autoconf to start warning that we're using a deprecated > macro and failing the build or confusing devs ? > > patch LGTM Because we use a macro to test for the specific autoconf version: aclocal.m4: 5 m4_define([GLIBC_AUTOCONF_VERSION], [2.69]) 6 m4_if(m4_defn([AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION]), GLIBC_AUTOCONF_VERSION, [], 7 [m4_fatal(m4_flatten( 8 Exactly version GLIBC_AUTOCONF_VERSION of Autoconf is required but you have 9 m4_defn([AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION]) So autoconf will start to fail or dumping a warning only if the distro actually patch it to do so. I don't have a strong opinion about this patch, but due the *current* constraints of the auto-generation (which requires an specific autoconf version), this patch does not improve anything really.