At Tuesday 01 June 2010, Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> I don't mind this patch, and it has been applied since, but I'll
> note that we cannot reasonably expect $ac_objext and $ac_exeext to
> be internal details, subject to change. The contents of
> $ac_compile and $ac_link are, unfortunately, exposed and
> practically part of the API.
Well, Eric referred to them as "internal details" in a previous mail.
And while they might not be exactly "internal", I think that relying
on them in third-party code is bad practice, and I agree with Eric
that we should suggest the use of $EXEEXT and $OBJEXT (which are
AC_SUBST, and are used also by Automake IIRC).
Maybe the ChangeLog entry and the git commit message could have been
expressed better, though. But that's not a big deal IMHO.
Regards,
Stefano
