Hello Eric, Bruno, * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 02:45:06PM CET: > According to Bruno Haible on 2/27/2009 3:36 PM: > > > > Eric Blake wrote in > > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-02/msg00213.html>: > >> But your patch has merit in that it makes a nice macro name that explains > >> what > >> you are intending. > > > > It would even be better if this macro was not needed. Couldn't AC_CACHE_VAL > > be > > changed to output "(cached)" when run between AC_MSG_CHECKING and > > AC_MSG_RESULT, and be silent otherwise? > > Wow, nice suggestion for improving the API. I'll work on that.
I like this, too, but I fear a bit that there may be old configure.in scripts that don't use the AC_MSG_* pair of macros. OTOH, a missing "(cached)" in really odd circumstances isn't all that big a problem. Otherwise, I like the idea of not publishing the cache feature, thanks. Cheers, Ralf
