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AC_HELP_STRING is obsolete in autoconf 2.70 #6647
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For the moment, I'd advice you to either stick with autoconf 2.69 or do as the warnings suggest: run autoupdate before you run autoconf. 2.70 is claimed to "not able to maintain perfect backward compatibility with existing Autoconf scripts" which of course is terribly annoying if we want to support both newer and older versions. |
I guess we should provide a private |
AC_HELP_STRING is deprecated in 2.70+ and I believe AS_HELP_STRING works already since 2.59 so bump the minimum required version to that. Reported-by: Emil Engler Fixes #6647
yes, in 2.71, it says same |
I did this
stdout, stderr
The stderr starts like this:
I expected the following
No obsolete warnings
curl/libcurl version
fb98a43
operating system
OpenBSD-current, autoconf-2.70, automake-1.16
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