Re: [PATCH] more cleanup before adding shell functions

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:14:10PM CEST:
> 
> > maybe a better approach is 
> > to make _AS_ECHO_LOG, AS_MESSAGE, _AS_LINENO_PREPARE, and AS_TMPDIR (ie. 
> > the 
> > actual clients of $as_me) be the ones that AS_REQUIRE([_AS_ME_PREPARE]).
> 
> I was not sure whether as_me was considered part of the public m4sh
> interface, though undocumented:

Libtool uses it, too.  I think it's a really old interface, and even if
undocumented, should be assumed to be used.  I don't think it is
possible to drop it in real-world configure scripts, and it won't speed
up real-world examples either.

I think a recent report on bug-gnulib shows that even gnulib-tool would
need as_me, really.

Cheers,
Ralf