On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 19:13 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 04/27/11 03:54 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >> IMO, you should at least AC_SUBST the variable if you want to use it
> >> somewhere else.
> >
> > I just wanted to make it available to the XORG_TLS macro Jeremy's working
> > on, not in a Makefile - is AC_SUBST needed for that?
> >
> > On the other hand it doesn't hurt, so I can easily add it anyway.
> 
> My thinking is that it's odd to depend on an internal variable of
> another macro. AC_SUBST doesn't change anything, but at least it's
> being announced. I'm just being pedantic, though.
> 

I agree. By virtue of usage, AC_SUBST has acquired a "public"
declaration role.
The value is stored in config.status and config.log which helps
debugging.



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