[icedtea-web] RFC: Use AC_LANG_SOURCE macros

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Mon Mar 31 14:12:42 UTC 2014


On 03/31/2014 04:11 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
> * Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> [2014-03-31 09:46]:
>> On 03/31/2014 03:34 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
>> ..but - arm and ppc folk seems to be requiring autoreconf.
>
> Hmm.. I hadn't considered this case.
>
> I think the simplest thing to do here is to assume these platforms have
> new-ish versions of autotools. If the versions are too old that they
> don't have those macros, then it's better to patch the build on just
> those platforms specifically rather than ignoring a warning (which could
> indicate that we are doing something very wrong with our macros).
>
> Thanks,
> Omair
>

Ok to push then :)

tbh - I was a bit ashamed to release ITW with this warnigs but was not brave enough :(

J.


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