From: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org
Following a recent discussion on bug-gnulib, Jim tells me not
to use the ugly as_echo setting boilerplate in my scripts
anymore, since printf has been available on every shell we care
about for at least 5 if not 10 years.
That affords us the opportunity to
This change would break gnulib's gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT.
Is there some way you can fix that? It's OK if we
have to modify gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT, it's just that
we need to modify it in a way that'll work with both
old and new Autoconf.
Also, any such patch to Autoconf should update
the documentation a
Hi Paul,
On 29 Jan 2013, at 06:13, Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu wrote:
This change would break gnulib's gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT.
Is there some way you can fix that?
Sure, since gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT is already using undocumented
internals of Autoconf, how about:
m4_pushdef([_AS_ECHO_N], [:
])
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