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Re: How to use cache variables
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Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: How to use cache variables |
Date: |
07 Feb 2002 14:35:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) |
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
>> This has been a default in Autoconf for years. I have a few ideas
>> on how to remove this problem, while at the same time enable the
>> implementation of other features. But it requires severe surgery,
>> which is not possible at this stage. Maybe for the next release.
Thomas> Removing the problem would be best done by documenting the
Thomas> conventions in use.
Err, isn't it the case?
>> Anyway, there are so many scripts depending on these names, that
>> whatever scheme will be chosen, we will keep them.
Thomas> (such as AC_CHECK_LIB ;-)
I must have lost the track here. Many people have asked for its
modernization, but this precisely never happened because of backward
compatibility issues. I guess you are referring to some change, but I
can't remember which one.
- How to use cache variables, John D. Burger, 2002/02/05
- Re: How to use cache variables, Lars Hecking, 2002/02/05
- Re: How to use cache variables, Thomas Dickey, 2002/02/05
- Re: How to use cache variables, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/06
- Re: How to use cache variables, John D. Burger, 2002/02/06
- Re: How to use cache variables, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/07
- Re: How to use cache variables, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/02/07
- Re: How to use cache variables,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: How to use cache variables, Thomas Dickey, 2002/02/07
- Re: How to use cache variables, akim, 2002/02/07