On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 09:15:23AM -0500, Mark D. Roth wrote: > On Fri May 17 09:55 2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ==> "mdr" == Mark D Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > mdr> To address this problem, I'd like to see the following two > > mdr> macros added to autoconf: > > > > mdr> AC_LOG(TEXT) ------------ Append TEXT to config.log. > > > > AC_DEFUN([AC_LOG],[dnl > > echo "$1" 1>&5 > > ])dnl > > Do we know that file descriptor 5 will always be sent to config.log? > That's not documented anywhere, so I don't know that we can count on > it. I think what really need here is a documented macro supplied by > autoconf that allows us to use the appropriate file descriptor, no > matter what it is. > > I'll throw together a patch for this and mail it to the list when I > have a chance.
(been there/done that/been ignored - 1997): dnl Write a debug message to config.log, along with the line number in the dnl configure script. AC_DEFUN([CF_MSG_LOG],[ echo "(line __oline__) testing $* ..." 1>&AC_FD_CC ])dnl -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
