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Re: Multiline arguments to AC_CHECK_HEADERS and AC_CHECK_FUNCS
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Multiline arguments to AC_CHECK_HEADERS and AC_CHECK_FUNCS |
Date: |
Thu, 17 May 2007 09:15:58 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
>> Thanks, that looks better, except it doesn't have any
>> changes to the documentation or to NEWS. Can you please
>> write those as well?
>
> Why should matters be complicated this way? Stepan showed it does not
> work with autoheader. How many packages are there that use this kind
> of quoted argument, and not use autoheader? Can't we instead *warn*
> on the problem and let the user fix their code?
I'm not opposed to having Autoconf warn about the problem if it
detects it, but that would be more work, no? I would think that
important thing is to document the revised behavior -- otherwise the
users won't know how to fix their code, because they won't know what
the problem is.