Re: AM_INCLUDE is a bad name.

[Akim Demaille]

Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:

> > Tom, you should also know you can have a special exception, and tell
> > autoconf AM_INCLUDE is OK.  But I agree with Pavel it looks way too
> > much like a macro name, in itself it is confusing.
> 
> As far as I know, it cannot be done without breaking compatibility with
> Autoconf 2.13.
> 
> Too bad Autoconf doesn't provide (offically at least) any means for
> writing macros conditionally for particular versions of Autoconf. 

ifdef.

> This feature may be useful for Automake and other tools working
> together with Autoconf, as well as for any packages installing m4
> files (gettext, GTK+, gnome-libs).
> 
> I mean something like
> 
> AC_VERSION_CASE(
> [<=2.13], [test "$FOO" = yes && tmp=foo; AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([$tmp])],
> [default], [test "$FOO" = yes && AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([foo])])

Don't go that way!  AC_PREREQ.