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9.5 Obsoleting Macros
Configuration and portability technology has evolved over the years.
Often better ways of solving a particular problem are developed, or
ad-hoc approaches are systematized. This process has occurred in many
parts of Autoconf. One result is that some of the macros are now
considered obsolete; they still work, but are no longer considered
the best thing to do, hence they should be replaced with more modern
macros. Ideally, autoupdate should replace the old macro calls
with their modern implementation.
Autoconf provides a simple means to obsolete a macro.
— Macro: AU_DEFUN ( old-macro, implementation, [message])
Define old-macro as implementation. The only difference
with AC_DEFUN is that the user is warned that
old-macro is now obsolete.
If she then uses autoupdate, the call to old-macro is
replaced by the modern implementation. message should
include information on what to do after running autoupdate;
autoupdate prints it as a warning, and includes it
in the updated configure.ac file.
The details of this macro are hairy: if autoconf encounters an
AU_DEFUNed macro, all macros inside its second argument are expanded
as usual. However, when autoupdate is run, only M4 and M4sugar
macros are expanded here, while all other macros are disabled and
appear literally in the updated configure.ac.
— Macro: AU_ALIAS ( old-name, new-name)
Used if the old-name is to be replaced by a call to new-macro
with the same parameters. This happens for example if the macro was renamed.
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