Re: autoconf is broken in various ways

[Tom Tromey]

Martin> To support the --extra-verbose option

Why is this important?  Can't people just read config.h?

Martin> XEmacs also modifies several of the other basic autoconf
Martin> macros, to disable the _evil_ cache.

The evil cache must be some XEmacs feature, because the cache I use is
distinctly good.  :-)

Seriously, I don't know the status of this.  There was some talk of
allowing people to disable the cache in configure.in, but I don't
recall whether it was in Akim's deluge.

I agree that the move to the next autoconf will be hard for you.
Redefining AC_DEFINE and other autoconf macros was never supported,
though.  You must have suspected that this would be a problem in the
future.

T