Re: AC_FUNC_STRTOD

[Eric Blake]

On 08/28/2010 04:42 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > +** Newly obsolete macros
> > +   The following macros have been marked obsolete.  New programs should use
> > +   the corresponding Gnulib modules.  Gnulib not only detects the particular
> > +   portability problems but also provides complete workarounds.
> > +
> > +     AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE  AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK
> > +     AC_FUNC_MKTIME  AC_FUNC_STRTOD
>
> If that gets accepted in Autoconf, here is a proposed patch for gnulib, in
> order to take over the maintenance of these macros from Autoconf (and also of
> AC_FUNC_MEMCMP, which was already marked obsolescent).
>
>
> 2010-08-28  Bruno Haible<address@hidden>
>
>         Take over the maintenance of some older macros from Autoconf.
>         * m4/error.m4 (AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE): New macro, from GNU Autoconf.
>         * m4/lstat.m4 (AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK): New macro, from
>         GNU Autoconf.
>         * m4/memcmp.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): New macro, from GNU Autoconf.
>         * m4/mktime.m4 (AC_FUNC_MKTIME): Change comment.

Seems reasonable to me, so I pushed this one to gnulib on your behalf.

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