Re: Aw: Re: Supressing output from AC_CHECK_DECL

[william pursell]

address@hidden wrote:
> > * address@hidden wrote on Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:46:53PM CEST:
> >     
> > > When I use AC_CHECK_DECL, how can I prevent it from outputting to the
> > > console for a specific message only? I don't want to supress all
> > > messages, only one specific message (and replace it with my own, more
> > > complex reusable macro).
Being fairly new to autoconf, I would like to get some
feedback on my first thought for a solution.  In particular,
I suspect that my approach is not good, but I'd love
to hear opinions on why it is not advisable:

exec 6> /dev/null
AC_CHECK_DECL(printf)
exec 6>& 1