Re: to conditionally test, or not to conditionally test?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:44:16AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > It's hard to tell whether a macro calls AC_REQUIRE.  (It can call it
> > indirectly.)
> True, ... but ...
> 
> ... in practice in most cases AC_PROG_<language> will be close to the
> beginning of a configure script before "feature checks". So unless you
> are doing something nasty, this in most cases works around the
> AC_REQUIRE issue. If this wasn't the case, autoconf would completely
> unusable.

thank you very much for explaining this to me.
I have much less practical experience with autoconf than theoretical
knowledge about it.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan