Re: Requirements: configuration test dependencies

[Tom Tromey]

Akim> Nevertheless, currently it is not because Autoconf itself has
Akim> somewhere a circular dependency.

Then that's the bug.

Akim> In addition, that would be a real incompatible change, since I
Akim> know there are such broken scripts outside.  BUt I would
Akim> certainly not mind `breaking' what's broken.  Still, first we
Akim> need to clean Autoconf wrt this.  ISTR it's something between
Akim> AC_AIX and AC_PROG_CC and AC_PROG_CPP, I don't recall well.

One long term goal was to get rid of the AC_<system> calls.  They are
relatively losing.  Maybe obsoleting them would be good?

Tom