James Youngman wrote: > > Couldn't we do something similar in gnulib? E.g., use > > GNULIB_REPLACE_FUNCS instead? Then AC_REPLACE_FUNCS in people's > > package will continue to work. > > That seems fairly reasonable, albeit a bit of an upheaval for everyone.
It does not need to affect everyone, if we use m4_pushdef/m4_popdef to do the trick. See gettext/gettext-tools/m4/libgrep.m4 for an example. Bruno
