The gnulib stdbool module currently arranges to #define HAVE_STDBOOL_H if necessary, but this symbol is never used. This is confusing people who port Emacs to systems that don't run 'configure', and I'd like to remove HAVE_STDBOOL_H from Emacs's src/config.in file. HAVE_STDBOOL_H is defined by Autoconf's AC_HEADER_STDBOOL (and thus by gnulib's, for compatibility with Autoconf). The only gnulib macro that uses AC_HEADER_STDBOOL is gnulib's AM_STDBOOL_H; the latter name is curious, as it implies that the macro belongs to Automake, but it's a gnulib macro. It's a bit untidy. How about the following idea to clean things up a bit? In Gnulib: * Rename gnulib's AC_HEADER_STDBOOL to gl_HEADER_STDBOOL. * Remove the AC_DEFINE([HAVE_STDBOOL_H], ...) from gl_HEADER_STDBOOL. * Rename gnulib's AM_STDBOOL_H to gl_STDBOOL_H. In Autoconf: * Mark AC_HEADER_STDBOOL as obsolescent, and suggest to Autoconf users that in the future they use gnulib if they want to be portable to pre-C99 hosts with respect to <stdbool.h>. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
