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Re: How to use cache variables
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: How to use cache variables |
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Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:06:59 -0500 |
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:35:04PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >> Anyway, there are so many scripts depending on these names, that
> >> whatever scheme will be chosen, we will keep them.
>
> Thomas> (such as AC_CHECK_LIB ;-)
>
> I must have lost the track here. Many people have asked for its
> modernization, but this precisely never happened because of backward
> compatibility issues. I guess you are referring to some change, but I
> can't remember which one.
iirc, the first bug I spotted in 2.50 was that AC_CHECK_LIB had changed
the naming convention for the associated cache variable so that checks
for the same function in more than one library would no longer work.
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- Re: How to use cache variables, Lars Hecking, 2002/02/05
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- Re: How to use cache variables, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/06
- Re: How to use cache variables, John D. Burger, 2002/02/06
- Re: How to use cache variables, Akim Demaille, 2002/02/07
- Re: How to use cache variables, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/02/07
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