Re: AC_CHECK_DECLS(basename) (Was: Re: Ping: patches required for --enable-build-with-cxx)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/17/2010 04:41 PM, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> Quoting Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:
> > sed alternation \| is not portable.
>
> I've replaced it now with a pair of substitutions. I also fixed
> the ',' substitution to give yield on opening bracket for the next cast,
> and to apply for all commas.
>
> > > + $[]as_decl_type
> >
> > What is this variable? It doesn't seem to be defined anywhere.
>
> Oops, that's a remnant from a previous implementation approach - I
> originally intended of declaring a variable with the type of the
> argument. That might work for more cases than casting 0 to the desired
> type, but supporting multiple arguments would be much messier.

Maybe we can use this in AC_CHECK_DECLS instead of having a new separate 
macro.  If there is a parenthesis in the name call the new version, if 
there is none, call the old one.

If it is fine, I can do the patch using Joern's work; thanks for it.

Paolo