Eric Blake wrote: > Is it worth trying to override AC_C_INLINE's definition of inline when we > detect that inline is not supported, such that inline is redefined to the > empty string, and uses of inline in headers that are not protected by > HAVE_INLINE will then cause multiple copy link errors if used in more than > one file?
This is probably not safe to do: There may be other source files, outside of gnulib, that use 'inline' in another context (such as 'extern inline' or similar - despite its complicated portability issues). AC_C_INLINE and gl_INLINE simply answer two different questions. Bruno