On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, and sorry for any name mangling, > > * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:44:59PM CET: >> On 03/07/2011 04:42 AM, СоУВУВ wrote: >> > "error: ac_nonexistent.h, no such file or directory." >> > ... >> > "Compilation terminated." >> > Fortunately that is the only error which appeared several times in the config.log file. >> >> That's a _good_ thing. We _expect_ that compilation error, to prove >> that we are correctly detecting how your compiler detects and rejects >> broken source code that refers to a non-existent header (knowing how the >> compiler detects missing headers is essential for later tests of >> AC_CHECK_HEADERS to see which headers are present). >> >> Not all failed compilations are bugs. > > Maybe AC_*_IFELSE should allow to denote the expected outcome, in > order to put only the unexpected outcome verbosely in config.log. That would be a very welcome change _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
