Re: RFC: Add public macros AC_LOG_CMD and AC_LOG_FILE.

[Karl Berry]

Subject: RFC: Add public macros AC_LOG_CMD and AC_LOG_FILE.

FWIW, it sounds good to me. To my mind, logging is one of the most
important features of autoconf, so I'm all for macros to support it
further. --thanks, karl.

Re: RFC: Add public macros AC_LOG_CMD and AC_LOG_FILE.

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024, at 10:23 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I'm thinking of making AC_RUN_LOG, which has existed forever but is
> undocumented, an official documented macro under the new name
> AC_LOG_CMD.  I'm renaming it because I also want to add AC_LOG_FILE, a
> generalization of _AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST.

FYI, this seemed straightforward to implement but has exposed a whole
bunch of latent problems, so it'll be a week or two more before I have
patches ready to go, but there's no insurmountable obstacles.  You can
all follow along at
.
(This branch will definitely be rebased at least once before things are
ready to merge.)

zw