Hi Gary, * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:36:46AM CEST: > I just ran a grep for all occurrences of AC_TRY_EVAL outside of aclocal.m4, > and the only places it cropped up - among the (almost 5000) package sources > we maintain at work - is in libtool.m4. > > I think we can safely drop AC_TRY_EVAL without too much ceremony, although > we'll need something (better!) for Automake and Libtool to use instead, as > you say.
Well, for one it takes about two years until people upgrade to a Libtool we release today, for another I would like to introduce more usage of either AC_TRY_EVAL or a better replacement in Automake *now*. Thanks, Ralf
