Re: [Plplot-devel] done for now

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:
 > > BTW it's easy enough to get rid of that irritating message from autoheader by
 > > just editing autoheader and chopping it out.  I think I may just have to make
 > > that my first new FAQ entry in 7 years!
 > 
 > That surgery on autoheader may not be required.
 > 
 > The autoheader script is part of the autoconf package.  From info autoconf
 > and then searching for autoheader options there is a --warn=no-obsolete
 > option.  Can you get that autoheader option to work with your version (2.57)
 > of autoconf? If so, use that option for the autoheader invocation in
 > bootstrap.sh, and it solves the problem.

I've looked at the autoheader [perl] script again and there is no
short-circuit for the "Preach".  There's a test to see if you're using one of
the "deprecated" modes and then $msg is set up and a simple:

    print STDERR $msg;

..no way around it.  Honestly, I think autoconf/etc is a wonderful tool but
sometimes the authors put in stuff that's just plain goofy.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)