Re: restrict.m4: do not punish autoconf 2.59 users

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:33:28PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > m4_ifndef([AC_C_RESTRICT],
> > AC_DEFUN([gl_C_RESTRICT],
...
> > could be better.
> 
> And what would we put into modules/restrict then?

sorry, this was a mistake, I meant:

m4_ifndef([AC_C_RESTRICT],
AC_DEFUN([AC_C_RESTRICT],

so we would put AC_C_RESTRICT into the configure.ac section.

Would you like this?

> > But: how many people are using current gnulib with Autoconf 2.57 or
> > earlier?

Actually, I thought the answer might be 0, without any substantial
chance that it'll increase.

> There is no need to spend time discussing this. It is not useful to
> gratuitously reduce the number of available choices, and you have not
> said why supporting autoconf-2.57 would be a problem.

No big problem, of course.  Let's forget about this second proposal.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan