On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:35:04PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > >> Anyway, there are so many scripts depending on these names, that > >> whatever scheme will be chosen, we will keep them. > > Thomas> (such as AC_CHECK_LIB ;-) > > I must have lost the track here. Many people have asked for its > modernization, but this precisely never happened because of backward > compatibility issues. I guess you are referring to some change, but I > can't remember which one.
iirc, the first bug I spotted in 2.50 was that AC_CHECK_LIB had changed the naming convention for the associated cache variable so that checks for the same function in more than one library would no longer work. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
