Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken.

[Paul Eggert]

Achim Gratz wrote:
> You'll end up re-implementing years and years of autoconf experience and
> probably badly.

The "years and years" of experience you're taking about is experience that is 
under my belt. I have been a reasonably major contributor to Autoconf and to all 
the Emacs configury code and I know how it works. I would not reimplement it badly.

The idea I have is basically the idea that you proposed in another email: do the 
obvious parallelizations with the current recipes. However, doing this under the 
aegis of Autoconf would be a mistake. Autoconf is essentially unmaintained now, 
and for good reason: it's a dead-end and nobody wants to deal with it.  We 
should be looking at migrating its good stuff (mostly shell+m4 recipes) to a 
better framework.