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Re: spurious "(cached)" output from AC_CACHE_VAL
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: spurious "(cached)" output from AC_CACHE_VAL |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:20:53 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hello Eric, Bruno,
* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 02:45:06PM CET:
> According to Bruno Haible on 2/27/2009 3:36 PM:
> >
> > Eric Blake wrote in
> > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-02/msg00213.html>:
> >> But your patch has merit in that it makes a nice macro name that explains
> >> what
> >> you are intending.
> >
> > It would even be better if this macro was not needed. Couldn't AC_CACHE_VAL
> > be
> > changed to output "(cached)" when run between AC_MSG_CHECKING and
> > AC_MSG_RESULT, and be silent otherwise?
>
> Wow, nice suggestion for improving the API. I'll work on that.
I like this, too, but I fear a bit that there may be old configure.in
scripts that don't use the AC_MSG_* pair of macros. OTOH, a missing
"(cached)" in really odd circumstances isn't all that big a problem.
Otherwise, I like the idea of not publishing the cache feature, thanks.
Cheers,
Ralf
- computing long double NaN on Irix 6.5, Eric Blake, 2009/02/26
- Re: computing long double NaN on Irix 6.5, Eric Blake, 2009/02/26
- Re: computing long double NaN on Irix 6.5, Bruno Haible, 2009/02/27
- spurious roundl output (was: computing long double NaN on Irix 6.5), Eric Blake, 2009/02/27
- Re: spurious roundl output (was: computing long double NaN on Irix 6.5), Bruno Haible, 2009/02/27
- Re: spurious roundl output (was: computing long double NaN on Irix 6.5), Eric Blake, 2009/02/27
- Re: spurious "(cached)" output from AC_CACHE_VAL, Bruno Haible, 2009/02/27
- Re: spurious "(cached)" output from AC_CACHE_VAL, Eric Blake, 2009/02/28
- Re: spurious "(cached)" output from AC_CACHE_VAL,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: computing long double NaN on Irix 6.5, Eric Blake, 2009/02/27
- Re: gcc on Irix 6.5, Bruno Haible, 2009/02/27
Re: computing long double NaN on Irix 6.5, Tom G. Christensen, 2009/02/27