Re: AC_CHECK_TOOL doesn't work with cached values

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Pavel,

Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
| >     * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_TOOL): Set $1 also when using the cache.
| >     Without this change, AC_PROG_RANLIB wouldn't work (wouldn't define
| >     RANLIB) when ac_cv_prog_RANLIB was defined in the cache.
|
| I think the same needs to be done for AC_PATH_TOOL. Maybe some day in the
| future it will be possible to factorize the code for both macros, but
| until then we should keep them in-sync.

Yes.  Good catch.

| You probably don't need to describe bad things in the ChangeLog as long as
| they can be trivially deduced :-)

Good point :-)

|       * acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_TOOL): Set $1 also when using the cache.
|       (AC_PATH_TOOL): Likewise.

I see you checked it in.  Thanks!