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. > -- > Dan > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
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