On 18/06/2023, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > Maybe I'm going blind, but it seems that AC_PROVIDE and > AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE are not documented in the Autoconf manual. AC_PROVIDE > is mentioned but not described. AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE is not mentioned.
When I reported this many years ago, the response[1] at the time was "the macros are stable and intended to be usable; we're just missing the documentation patch." But neither I nor anyone else stepped up to actually write it. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2012-12/msg00000.html Cheers, Nick