Bruno Haible writes: > AC_CHECK_HEADERS wants a whitespace separated list. > AC_CHECK_FUNCS wants a whitespace separated list. > AC_CHECK_DECLS wants a comma separated list. > AC_LIBSOURCES wants a comma separated list. > > Why?!
The advantage of comma-separated lists are that they can be processed naturally as lists in m4, whereas the whitespace-separated lists are just passed through as a blob of data, usually to shell loop. Eventually, all macros will use the comma style. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
