bug-gnulib
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: AC_DEFUN_ONCE and maintainability


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: AC_DEFUN_ONCE and maintainability
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:25:12 -0600
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1

On 07/02/2012 07:22 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
>> How about the name AC_DEF_ONCE instead?
> 
> Yes, this name is equally good, possibly better than AC_ONCE.

Technically, the AC_ namespace is reserved for autoconf, and introducing
a new AC_ name (whether AC_ONCE or AC_DEF_ONCE) in gnulib but not
documented in the autoconf manual may provide a point of confusion to
future readers.

Could we instead go with a gnulib namespace convention, especially since
it will be 00gnulib.m4 that defines the macro?  Something like:

gl_DEFUN -> synonym for AC_DEFUN
gl_DEFUN_ONCE -> synonym for AC_DEFUN_ONCE in autoconf 2.64+, or our
wrapper that works around the bugs of autoconf 2.59-2.63
gl_DEF_ONCE -> our new wrapper that Bruno is proposing

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org



Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]