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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replaced obsoleted AC_HELP_STRING to AS_HELP_STRING
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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
-mike