On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 21:53, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello, > > * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:05:40PM CEST: >> In order to avoid rewriting your makefiles, just do >> >> AC_SUBST([ECHO], [echo]) >> >> for the time being. > > I don't think that works currently. Libtool sets $ECHO early in > configure and uses that when writing config.status. When users > overwrite that, it may break the generated libtool script on some > systems.
Ouch, right. Two-argument AC_SUBST implies VAR=value, I forgot. > Add to that that Libtool used to AC_SUBST([ECHO]). But it doesn't anymore. > Whatever we do, NEWS needs a big warning note. Why? It's just namespace pollution, which has always been there. Paolo
