* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:00:08PM CET: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/30/2009 12:31 AM: > > Should we also document that the ACTION-IF-TRUE part of > > AC_LINK_IFELSE allows linked programs to be inspected (not necessarily > > run) and that of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE allows compiled objects to be > > inspected? > > Hmm, those aren't done as often (about all you can do is run nm on it; > that seems like something libtool might want to do, but who else does it > to be worth documenting it?).
You can rename it, compile another object and link both together. There are cases where testing a program made up of more than one object is of interest. Even for libtool it would be nice to have certainty. But you're right, this isn't that urgent or important. > > And add testsuite exposure to each? > > I won't turn down help on that front. Not even needed: I merely didn't find tests/compile.at:Order of user actions and cleanup until now. Gee, I really should try to hack up that coverage map ... Cheers, Ralf
