On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Really, anyone with $ac_t in their script should modernize, and use ECHO_T > instead. http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/src/m4/proto.m4 I think I will just drop it altogether: @@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([CL_PROTO], AC_CACHE_VAL(cl_cv_proto_[$1], [$2 cl_cv_proto_$1="$3"]) cl_cv_proto_$1=`echo "[$]cl_cv_proto_$1" | tr -s ' ' | sed -e 's/( /(/'` -AC_MSG_RESULT([$]{ac_t:- - }[$]cl_cv_proto_$1) +AC_MSG_RESULT([$]cl_cv_proto_$1) ]) dnl CL_PROTO_RET(INCLUDES, DECL, CACHE-ID, TYPE-IF-OK, TYPE-IF-FAILS) >> 2. required: is there a replacement for ac_t or should it be dropped? > > Yes, we can avoid using $ac_t for our temporary variable name, to respect > the fact that there are some _really_ old scripts that are exploiting > formerly undocumented internals that no longer exist. Although those > configure.in should be modernized, we can at least make their output look > prettier with a simple change to avoid the problematic name. I suggest that you set ac_t to something like "fix your configure.ac: ac_t is obsolete, use ECHO_T instead". -- Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
