Re: may Automake rely on _AC_SUBST_VARS?

2009-04-08 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:53:00AM CEST: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/7/2009 12:41 PM: > >> m4_define([_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT], > >> m4_defn([_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT])[m4_provide([_AM_COMPILER_EXEEXT])]) > >> > >> m4_provide_if([_AM_COMPILER_EXEEXT], > >> [AM_CONDITIO

Re: may Automake rely on _AC_SUBST_VARS?

2009-04-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/7/2009 12:41 PM: >> m4_define([_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT], >> m4_defn([_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT])[m4_provide([_AM_COMPILER_EXEEXT])]) >> >> m4_provide_if([_AM_COMPILER_EXEEXT], >> [AM_CONDITIONAL([am__EXEEXT], [test -n "$EXEEXT

Re: may Automake rely on _AC_SUBST_VARS?

2009-04-07 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:23:01PM CEST: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/6/2009 11:28 PM: > > > > In other occasions, it is often clear which macro introduces a variable. > > For example, here it's _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT, but that one is define'd > > only, not defun'e

Re: may Automake rely on _AC_SUBST_VARS?

2009-04-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/6/2009 11:28 PM: >> people start wanting to get at the same information, we can add a public >> wrapper along the lines of: >> >> # AC_SUBST_VARS_QUERY([VAR], [IF-USED], [IF-UNUSED]) >> # --

Re: may Automake rely on _AC_SUBST_VARS?

2009-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:41:58AM CEST: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/6/2009 2:48 PM: > > This variable is undocumented, but has been used much before 2.62 > > (which is the Autoconf version current Automake requires). Would > > it be ok to rely on this undocumented varia

Re: may Automake rely on _AC_SUBST_VARS?

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding automake-patches] According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/6/2009 2:48 PM: > This variable is undocumented, but has been used much before 2.62 > (which is the Autoconf version current Automake requires). Would > it be ok to rely on this undocumented

may Automake rely on _AC_SUBST_VARS?

2009-04-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Eric, I would like to fix the remaining glitch in and one method I've been able to come up with was to rely on _AC_SUBST_VARS. This variable is undocumented, but has been used much before 2.62 (which is the Autoconf versio