Re: Filesystem issues ?

[Kristis Makris]

> > was somehow a little more informative, in terms of reporting the line in
> > the original configure.in where the invalid variable value was possibly
> > set. So I wouldn't have to harass you folks.
> 
> Yes, that would be nice.  Difficult to achieve though, unfortunately.
> The piece of code that does the substitutions is in a hot path, i.e., 
> any slowdowns there will be quite noticable to users.  You could get
> into the habit of echoing the variables that you set, with combinations
> of AC_MSG_CHECKING and AC_MSG_RESULT for example.

Perhaps some flag could be available that if enabled in configure.in it
enables that extra checking in the hot path. I've been echoing the
variables I set, and still missed it. Oh well. Just something to think
about.

Thanks again.