On 9/27/20 7:14 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
It remains my opinion that the correct fix is to convert all of these to AC_CACHE_CHECK and not try to hide any checks from the person running configure.
Bruno and I had a conversation on bug-gnulib about this recently, and he is of the opinion that gl_SILENT is a good way to hide these checks. I'm not so sure. Currently Gnulib defines gl_SILENT in m4/gnulib-common.m4 as an experiment, but never uses it.
See the thread ending here: https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2020-09/msg00093.html
