[sr #110350] AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD broken with 2.69c

[Zack Weinberg]

Follow-up Comment #2, sr #110350 (project autoconf):

> is maintaining compatibility the sticking point, or is it that you want a
better API to enable what AX_PROC_CC_FOR_BUILD did?

Right now we want to maintain compatibility.  Developing a better API and
fixing the problem within ax_prog_cc_for_build.m4 would both take too long for
the 2.70 release timeframe.

> how important is it to use AC_DEFUN_ONCE for AC_PROG_CC?

I honestly don't know.  The change was made eight years ago with very little
rationale - see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2012-09/msg00034.html ,
which was committed nearly verbatim.

It would be simple enough to revert that change, but I would want to write
tests to ensure this doesn't break again (at least not until we do have a
better API) and it might make sense to try to accomplish the goal of the
change - reducing the size of a generated configure script - some other way
(e.g. factoring out as much as possible of the code emitted by AC_PROG_CC to a
shell function).

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