[PPL-devel] Re: Am I using m4_patsubst and m4_regexp?

[Roberto Bagnara]

akim at lrde.epita.fr wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:55:19PM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have switched to the latest autoconf snapshot (2.52e, cvs-updated today)
> > and have tried hard to follow all the instructions for the upgrade.
> > I believe I am no longer using any deprecated feature, but I get
> >
> > $ autoreconf
> > configure.ac:21: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
> > configure.ac:312: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
> > autoheader: `config.h.in' is unchanged
> 
> You don't use it directly, it is Automake which does.  It's only a
> warning, disregard it.  If it is too troublesome, maybe I will turn
> it off.  What Automake are you running?
> 
> The bad guys are in header.m4.

akim at lrde.epita.fr wrote:
> 
> I forgot to say that of course next versions of Automake won't have
> this problem.  Together with the spurious failures of cond5, maybe
> this deserves a 1.5.1?

Hi Akim,

thank you very much for the information.  I don't know if silencing
the spurious warnings we are observing deserves a 1.5.1, but I can tell
that these warnings tend to confuse people.
Keep up the great work.
All the best,

    Roberto

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Roberto Bagnara
Computer Science Group
Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy
http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/
mailto:bagnara at cs.unipr.it