Hi Friends, > Le 9 févr. 2023 à 01:42, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> a écrit : > > On 2/8/23 15:15, Bruno Haible wrote: >> m4_provide_if is not documented in the Autoconf manual. Let's hope >> it won't change incompatibly... > > Yes, I hope so too. Gnulib is already using m4_provide_if in > gnulib/m4/largefile.m4 (in code stolen from Autoconf) so to some extent we're > exposed already, though of course this gnulib/m4/nullptr.m4 change increases > Gnulib's exposure. > > One possibility is for Autoconf to document m4_provide_if and friends, since > they haven't changed in two decades. I'll cc this email to Akim to see > whether he has insight as to why the Autoconf manual doesn't document > m4_provide_if etc. already.
I have absolutely no idea :) But it seems that m4_provide_if is considered to be part of m4sugar, and AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE to be its alter ego for Autoconf. Not documented either... Cheers!
