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Re: Bug#372179: marked as done (autoconf: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites
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Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#372179: marked as done (autoconf: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@) |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:34:04 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 |
Hi Stepan,
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 06:12:51PM CEST:
> > [...] several macros in Autoconf overwrite the positional
> > parameters, not just AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM. For example,
> > AC_CHECK_PROG does, so do some others. [...]
>
> I agree that we should document this limitation. I would document
> that any Autoconf macro can change the positional parameters.
See here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-06/msg00065.html
> There is only one question: should we make the commitment that
> AC_INIT leaves the parameters untached or not?
> (I don't know the answer.)
Above change has implicitly made this assumption. I think it is ok;
we should allow ourselves to change this only when we give the user a
better, documented method to access them (remember that we agreed a
couple of weeks ago not to do this documenting now?).
Cheers,
Ralf