[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Remove an obsolete macro in configure.in

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 27 May 2013 17:00:50 +0200,
Jordi Mallach wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> El dj 16 de 05 de 2013 a les 15:47 +0200, en/na Takashi Iwai va
> escriure:
> > At Thu, 16 May 2013 04:32:58 -0400,
> > olivier at trillion01.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > From: Olivier Langlois <olivier at trillion01.com>
> > > 
> > > Replaced AM_CONFIG_HEADER with AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
> > > 
> > > lano1106 at whippet2 ~/dev/alsa-lib $ ./gitcompile
> > > aclocal: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
> > > configure.in:56: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete.
> > >     You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead.
> > > /usr/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
> > > configure.in:56: the top level
> > > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> > > aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
> > 
> > Sigh, automake should be renamed to automasochism...
> 
> Would you accept patches for some other improvements, like generating xz
> tarballs and modernising some bits of the autotools infrastructure?
> 
> In particular, if wanted, getting rid of the package-of-packages layout
> in alsa-tools and have it be a single package with a single configure
> script like alsa-utils is something I'd like to get done in my copious
> free time.

I myself don't mind any changes, but don't know what other people
think.  I guess the current structure of alsa-tools was done so that
you can build some of alsa-tools components even without the
installation of full dependent packages. 

This was the era before pkgconfig, and auto-tools required the
explicit macro definitions of the dependent packages.  With pkgconfig,
this is no longer true, so it'd be OK to unify, but let's see...

In anyway, just send patches if you think they are good.


thanks,

Takashi