Autoconf 2.50 made several changes to macro calls. These include also
arguments passed to AC_OUTPUT macro. The upgrading chapter in Autoconf
documentation include an example of using AC_OUTPUT with
AC_CONFIG_FILES and AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS:
- https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Obsolete-Macros.html
PHP 5.4 to 7.1 require Autoconf 2.59+, PHP 7.2+ require Autoconf 2.64+,
and PHP 7.2 phpize script requires Autoconf 2.59+ which are all greater
than above mentioned 2.50 version. Systems out there should well support
this by now.
This patch was created with the help of autoupdate script:
autoupdate <file>
More info on where exactly this got deprecated:
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/autoconf-2.13/html_mono/autoconf.html
- ftp://ftp.auckland.ac.nz/pub/gnu/Manuals/autoconf-2.52/html_chapter/autoconf_15.html
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/NEWS
Some editors utilizing .editorconfig automatically trim whitespaces. For
convenience this patch removes whitespaces in certain build files:
- ext/*/config*.m4
- configure.ac
- acinclude.m4
Autoconf doesn't mention the AC_CONFIG_HEADER macro since the v2.13
released in 1999 anywhere in the documentation. Future of this macro is
unclear and commented as possible candidate for obsoletion in the
autoconf source code. Since it is just a wrapper around the main
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS macro, the functionality is the same, and also more
clear to find it in the autoconf documentation and avoid possible future
obsoletion.
configure.ac was introduced in 2001 with automake-1.15 and autoconf-2.50
to replace the file named configure.in.
Autotools is preparing to remove configure.in in Automake 2.0.
All new software should be using configure.ac.
This also fixes Bug #69770 where extensions are creating configure.in
Signed-off-by: Brian Evans <grknight@gentoo.org>
- Made macros of couple of tests previously littering configure.in
(e.g. PHP_PROG_AWK, PHP_PROG_LEX, PHP_PROG_BISON..)
- Moved all PHP_SUBST() calls into their respective macros.
(no point adding empty entries in Makefile if macro is not used)
