Re: [pacman-dev] autoconf-2.68 introduces a warning

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Allan McRae  wrote:
> Autoconf-2.68 gives us this warning with pacman:
>
>> ./autogen.sh
> + aclocal
> configure.ac:128: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected
> in body
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2662: _AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2679: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:265: _LT_AC_SYS_LIBPATH_AIX is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:3807: AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_LD_SHLIBS is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:2583: _LT_AC_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:2582: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:54: AC_LIBTOOL_SETUP is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:37: _AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from...
> acinclude.m4:30: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from...
> configure.ac:128: the top level
> ...
>
> The relevant upstream commit is:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=1e604ecf
>
> I am not likely to fix this in the near future so if someone else wants to
> submit a patch...

Interesting because AC_LANG_PROGRAM is in there which also seems to be allowed.

Either way, libtool doesn't even use this macro anymore, and our whole
build system probably needs some updates for all the macros and junk
we are dragging along.

-Dan