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

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paolo,

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:27:42AM CET:
> 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...

I don't remember the details, but there were problems with long output
and the various echo replacements used in ltmain.sh.  It's grossly ugly,
yes, but I did have to debug such a failure once (probably on a Solaris
systems with its broken printf), and it wasn't fun.

Cheers,
Ralf