Using automake.git (will become 1.12 someday), I got this error: configure.ac:90: error: automatic de-ANSI-fication support has been removed /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11a/protos.m4:13: AM_C_PROTOTYPES is expanded from... configure.ac:90: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 In short, pre-C89 compilers are no longer a viable portability target. Besides, our code base already requires C99, so worrying about pre-C89 seems pointless. * configure.ac (AM_C_PROTOTYPES): Drop, since newer automake no longer provides it. --- Pushing under the build-breaker rule. configure.ac | 6 +----- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 46a9129..e9e17f4 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. -dnl Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Red Hat, Inc. +dnl Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Red Hat, Inc. dnl See COPYING.LIB for the License of this software AC_INIT([libvirt], [0.9.8], [libvir-list@redhat.com], [], [http://libvirt.org]) @@ -86,10 +86,6 @@ gl_INIT AC_TYPE_UID_T -dnl Make sure we have an ANSI compiler -AM_C_PROTOTYPES -test "x$U" != "x" && AC_MSG_ERROR([Compiler not ANSI compliant]) - dnl Support building Win32 DLLs (must appear *before* AM_PROG_LIBTOOL) AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL -- 1.7.7.5