[postgis-devel] autoconf versions

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 11:29:04AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> writes:
> 
> > We discussed this before, but now that we are on a fresh master branch I thought I'd re-raise, perhaps it's time to do the updates in configure.ac to quiet the warnings, like
> >
> > configure.ac:65: warning: The macro `AC_LIBTOOL_COMPILER_OPTION' is obsolete.
> > configure.ac:79: warning: The macro `AC_LIBTOOL_LINKER_OPTION' is obsolete.
> > configure.ac:134: warning: AC_PROG_LEX without either yywrap or noyywrap is obsolete
> > configure.ac:824: warning: AM_PROG_MKDIR_P: this macro is deprecated, and will soon be removed.
> > configure.ac:824: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_LINK' is obsolete.
> >
> > etc, etc,
> >
> > New year, new versions, all that good stuff? 
> > If I don't hear howls of outrage I'm going to do it.
> 
> No outrage, but I expect this involves picking a new version for minimum
> required version, so that you can use things introduced in that version
> or later.
> 
> Personally, I use pkgsrc which has 2.71, so I am highly unlikely to be
> bothered.
> 
> What version do you propose as the new minimum?

Are you talking about libtoolize or autoconf or what else ?

--strk;