[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] _final_ *snprintf cleanup. (PR#774)

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, thue@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2001 11:41, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 May 2001, thue@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> > You define a function AC_FUNC_VSNPRINTF. That should probably be
>> > FC_FUNC_VSNPRINTF like the other native freeciv functions.
>>
>> I did it like that because I'm going to submit it to the GNU
>> Autoconf archive as soon as I finish my finals.  Most of the other
>> functions you can find there are named like that.  Feel free to
>> change it to whatever you feel like for the purposes of Freeciv, up
>> to and including AC_HOLGER_DANSKE ;-)
>>
>> > Just curious, why not conform to the newer C99 standard?
> 
> Shouldn't the code be added to acinclude.m4 and not aclocal.m4?

Yes, you're right.  My mistake.

> If we put it in aclocal.m4 we have to manually put it back in every
> time we have run aclocal, if I understand it correctly.  Ok, that
> won't be a problem if it makes it into the official autoconf, but
> that is first at some point in the future.

The Autoconf archive is not part of the Autoconf distribution; see
  http://cryp.to/autoconf-archive/

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