google appears to suggest that $ac_t is widely used in older configure scripts
as a tab character, e.g.:
echo "$ac_t""found" 1>&6
it appears that it it not mentioned in any docs and not defined to anything
useful for some time.
since recently, however, it is used in a loop setting ac_install_sh, and now it
is set to "install-sh". thus now I see configure messages like
checking for getrlimit declaration... (cached) install-shextern int getrlimit
(enum __rlimit_resource, struct rlimit *);
Thus my questions are:
1. optional: what is the history of the matter?
2. required: is there a replacement for ac_t or should it be dropped?
thanks!
Sam.
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