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Re: AU_DEFUN obsolete functions


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: AU_DEFUN obsolete functions
Date: 22 Apr 2002 12:46:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp)

>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

adl> However obsolete.test exercizes only the obsolete.m4 macros (no
adl> AC_REQUIRE here), and it fails because *Autoconf* uses AC_REQUIRE
adl> in AU_DEFUN, for instance see AC_CYGWIN, AC_EMXOS2, and
adl> AC_MINGW32.

Thanks for pointing this out.  This should be fixed.  Or maybe was it
done because these macros are not to be called from the top level?
Anyway, one should not, in general, rely on AC_REQUIRE in the AU_DEFUN
of a top-level macro.

I will remove the bad guys from Autoconf.

-- 
Ashamed.



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