* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:01:07PM CEST: > By the way, the use of "$ac_t" alongside cache results seems to be > weird. The whole idea was that there used to be setups where there > was no portable way of printing text without a trailing newline, so > for those shells, you'd get: > > 'checking for ... > ', delay, '<tab>result' > > for a visual appearance of > > checking for ... > result > > which is the best you can do, compared to better shells that do > > 'checking for... ', delay, 'result' > > resulting in the more visually appealing > > checking for ... result By the way, there are packages (like GCC) which allow to run multiple configure scripts in parallel (by means other than AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS). For them, it would be nice if configure provided a means to delay the "checking for ..." part and print the whole line at once after the test, making interspersed stdout output a bit more readable. (You wouldn't be able to spot a hanging configure test from the output either way anyway ...) I had half a patch for this in some old branch, lemme see if I can find the time to finish it eventually. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
