Re: proposed gnulib-related additions to Autoconf

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paul Eggert on 3/1/2006 11:28 AM: > "Gary V. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> i) Let's just improve AC_CHECK_HEADERS (et al) to always make configure >> smaller and faster by despatching to (undocumented internal) >>

Re: proposed gnulib-related additions to Autoconf

2006-03-10 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Paul, Nice work! Yes, I agree that reparenting these macros into Autoconf is an excellent idea. As you are soliciting feedback... Paul Eggert wrote: > +** AC_CHECK_DECLS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE > + New "once-only" variants of commonly-used macros, to make 'configure

Re: proposed gnulib-related additions to Autoconf

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if adding 'at configure time' at the end of that sentence would help. Will do. > Should we also provide a collector macro that ensures that all C99 types > and bounds are available, rather than having the user list so many macros > in their confi

Re: proposed gnulib-related additions to Autoconf

2006-03-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please s,==,=, to make this pass test on HPUX. Thanks for catching that. I installed this fix into gnulib and coreutils, and will similarly fix the Autoconf code before I install it. 2006-03-01 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * extensio

Re: proposed gnulib-related additions to Autoconf

2006-03-02 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:48:54AM CET: > Several macros in Gnulib really belong in Autoconf. I took a first > cut at migrating the code, and came up with the following proposed > patch to Autoconf. Not all the gnulib macros made the cut, and some > needed to be rena