Re: AS_CASE vs case/esac

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* NightStrike wrote on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:52:31PM CET:
> On 3/13/08, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > * NightStrike wrote on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:35:47PM CET:
> > >
> > > Ok, now I understand.  This is quite an interesting situation.  I am
> > > guessing that this is why tools like autoscan or autoupdate will use
> > > actual case/if statements instead of the AS_CASE/IF macros.
> >
> > Where do they do that?  autoscan and autoupdate mostly predate these
> > AS_CASE/IF features.
> 
> For instance, when replacing a cygwin test with:
> 
> case $host_os in
>   *cygwin* ) CYGWIN=yes
>   * ) CYGWIN=no;;
> esac
> 
> instead of an AC_CASE equivalent.

Oh, ok.

> Autoscan in particular also always
> wants to put in a bug pile of macros listed in the manual as obsolete.

Please let this be productive and name them, so that can be fixed.
Thanks.

Cheers,
Ralf