Lars Hecking:
> The names are fairly obvious, and there's a section in the autoconf manual > that explains them (Results of Tests->Caching Results->Cache Variable Names). Thomas Dickey: > Though the mechanism is (has been) documented, the convention for several > macros has changed a couple of times over autoconf's history. That's my concern - the names themselves are not documented, so it's less surprising that they might change than that documented behavior might change. (Of course I don't mean that ac_cv_header_foobar_h is not mentioned in the Autoconf docs, I mean even the format of the cache variable that AC_CHECK_HEADER(foobar.h) generates is not =explicitly= documented.) Lars Hecking: > But you don't need to do it this way. ... > You can do more in the ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND parts > but then you should enclose these parts in [], resp. Yes, I alluded to this in my original message. Perhaps the answer is that if this isn't possible (e.g., I want to do something that depends onj the results of several tests), and I'm squeamish about using any particular cache variables, I should set my own variables in the ACTION-IF-FOUND/ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND parts ... Thanks. - John
