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Re: Allow inspecting AC_PREPROC_IFELSE output in true branch.
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Allow inspecting AC_PREPROC_IFELSE output in true branch. |
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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:56:21 -0700 |
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On 07/19/10 10:43, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> IMHO the most dangerous bit of this patch is that I'm unsure why
> AC_EGREP_CPP (aka AC_PROGRAM_EGREP earlier) was introduced in the first
> place, if there was some portability issue formerly that prevented an
> AC_TRY_PREPROC or so.
No, I expect that grep was used primarily because it was "easy"
and people hadn't thought through the portability and modularity
problems with using the grep approach.