autoconf.ac [was Re: Call for testing: OpenSSH-5.7]

[Ángel González]

Tim Rice wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, �~Angel González wrote:
>>> That said, we could be consistant on the use of AC_LANG_SOURCE.
>>> Does this patch make your 2.68 happy?
>> It does seem to make it happier. 81 error lines instead of 288.
>> The errors may be coming from some included file, though.
> OK, I couldn't resist. Here is a patch (attached so mailers don't mangle it)
> that adds some additional M4 quoting, and uses AC_LANG_PROGRAM as sugested
> by Roumen. Autoconf 2.68 is happy with it and autoconf 2.61 still likes it.
> Using it with autoconf 2.61, there are no regressions on the 8 machines I
> tested on (config.h identical). It may be to late to get this in for 5.7.
> I'll let Damien decide.
Confirmed that it removes the warnings.


>> Here are the errors after applying your patch http://pastebin.com/hywKkavP
> Best to post the output to the list.
That list of warnings is mostly noise, and quite large, so I wanted to
spare it to
most readers of this thread which was already going off topic.
Noted for the future.