Re: FYI: 7-gary-_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH-break-3.patch

[Albert Chin]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 04:31:27PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:03:36PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >> 
> >> Applied to HEAD.
> >
> > Why? Is it _safe_ to assume how deeply nested we are?
> 
> My impression is that he was just trying to patch the problem without
> trying to come up with a more-general solution.  _AS_PATH_WALK is
> documented to be poorly-designed, and _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK is
> inheriting that poor design.  It'd be nice to fix the overall problem,
> of course.

Part of this patch removed the break from _AC_PATH_PROG_FEATURE_CHECK:
  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-03/msg00026.html

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albert chin (address@hidden)