Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 06:12:51PM CEST: > > [...] several macros in Autoconf overwrite the positional > > parameters, not just AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM. For example, > > AC_CHECK_PROG does, so do some others. [...] > > I agree that we should document this limitation. I would document > that any Autoconf macro can change the positional parameters.
See here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-06/msg00065.html > There is only one question: should we make the commitment that > AC_INIT leaves the parameters untached or not? > (I don't know the answer.) Above change has implicitly made this assumption. I think it is ok; we should allow ourselves to change this only when we give the user a better, documented method to access them (remember that we agreed a couple of weeks ago not to do this documenting now?). Cheers, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
