Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:59:34AM CET: > According to Alfred de Wijn on 11/17/2008 6:44 PM: > > > I now just do some checks early to see which *FLAGS environment > > variables are set. This way I'm independent of autoconf internals, and > > so it's probably a good idea anyway, > > Yep, that is the portable solution that should work across all autoconf > versions. In general, if you want to test if a variable was in use, then > it is safest to add shell code to do that check right after AC_INIT and > prior to calling any macros that might also care about the variable (a > similar case is using $@ within configure.ac - a user that wants to save > the original command-line arguments must grab them immediately after > AC_INIT, since many other autoconf macros liberally use 'set').
Good advice. > > A test is attached, for what it's worth. mutt should behave better than > > Mail.app when it comes to attachments. > > Yep, the patch came through much nicer. However, that mail seems to not have come through to the list. > So, a plea to all bug-autoconf readers - any preferences on whether I > should apply 0, 1, or 2 of Alfred's patches? If I don't hear anything by > Friday, then I'll apply just the first patch, for the sake of consistency > with C/C++. Not having seen any but version 0, I'd say apply that but don't document it. Judging would be easier with the other mail. Cheers, Ralf
