Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:22:56AM CEST: >> On 09/08/2009 10:25 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >I wanted this change in vc-dwim, since it doesn't use autoheader: >> >I'd rather skip autoheader than add an unnecessary AC_CONFIG_HEADERS. >> >> Although obsolete, please look for AM_CONFIG_HEADER too. > > The macro could also be called from another macro, living in aclocal.m4 > or another macro file. autoconf supports --trace for half a decade now > to find such things out correctly, and autoreconf even uses that method > (in the correct order of running aclocal first to find the set of > interesting files). > > Just a thought. I don't want to disturb fragile grepping of > configure.ac (and yes, I know libtoolize does it too; that doesn't make > it any better).
Hi Ralf, I think that's a fine idea. It's on my list, but far enough down that it won't be done this week. If you feel like doing it, I'd welcome a patch.
