Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès, le Fri 30 May 2014 17:29:27 +0200, a écrit : >> Manolis Ragkousis <manolis...@gmail.com> skribis: >> >> > I had to put one more line after AC_NO_EXECUTABLES, otherwise it would >> > fail with >> >>> syntax error near unexpected token `fi'. >> >> AC_NO_EXECUTABLES expands to nothing, hence the error. It seems that we >> don’t even have to use it in a conditional. > > ? I see in the autoconf source code that it was modified precisely so > that it can be used in a conditional.
Yes, the comment says that, but it’s unclear to me that’s it’s still relevant: the macro expands to nothing, so what’s gained by using it in a conditional? Anyway, things work as is, so maybe it’s not worth bothering. ;-) Ludo’.