RFC: Add public macros AC_LOG_CMD and AC_LOG_FILE.

2024-06-23 Thread Zack Weinberg
I'm thinking of making AC_RUN_LOG, which has existed forever but is undocumented, an official documented macro under the new name AC_LOG_CMD. I'm renaming it because I also want to add AC_LOG_FILE, a generalization of _AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST. These are handy any time you want to record details of wh

Re: RFC: Add public macros AC_LOG_CMD and AC_LOG_FILE.

2024-06-23 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2024-06-23 22:23, Zack Weinberg wrote: > I'm thinking of making AC_RUN_LOG, which has existed forever but is > undocumented, an official documented macro ... Yes, please! I will note that Autoconf has a lot of "run and log a command" internal macros with various comments of the form "doesn't w