Re: Results from running autoupdate on gnulib m4 files

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/27/20 7:14 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> It remains my opinion that the correct fix is to convert all of these
> to AC_CACHE_CHECK and not try to hide any checks from the person
> running configure.

Bruno and I had a conversation on bug-gnulib about this recently, and he is of 
the opinion that gl_SILENT is a good way to hide these checks. I'm not so sure. 
Currently Gnulib defines gl_SILENT in m4/gnulib-common.m4 as an experiment, but 
never uses it.

See the thread ending here:

https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2020-09/msg00093.html