Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 09:04:17AM CEST: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 06:40:49PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > If I remove caching from AC_CHECK_PROG and AC_CHECK_TOOL, what > > > _incompatibility_ would it cause? > > > Would it break some documented behaviour? > > Yes, caching. > > you are right, this is incompatibility.
Yes, I agree with Ralf there. > But I don't think this would be breaking any documented behaviour, > as I cannot find any place which says that AC_CHECK_PROGS caches its > result. In my quick search, I found only a note that "many checks" > cache their results. It _is_ documented, albeit a little implicitly. info Autoconf 'Cache Variable Names' mentions, how the cache names are built, and info Autoconf 'Macro Names' mentions the types, for example `PROG' and `PATH'. Reading that, plus observing that the corresponding cache names _are_ used would make /me/ innocent user believe they were safe to use. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
