Re: [PATCH 09/12] use a shell function for AC_CHECK_TYPE

[Paolo Bonzini]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Paolo Bonzini on 11/2/2008 1:27 AM:
>> By a completely different approach, would it make sense to switch from
>> cat to AS_ECHO in order to build the conftest.c files?  That would save
>> forks for *all* tests...
> 
> That would mean tracking the contents of confdefs.h as a shell variable
> rather than a separate file.  But yes, it might be possible.

Hmm, in turn that would mean relying more on AS_VAR_APPEND for
non-quadratic behavior.  Probably not a great idea.

Paolo