As a general rule, we're trying to migrate checking for specific
library features out of Autoconf and into gnulib or whereever.
This is true for POSIX interfaces as well as for non-POSIX;
for example, it's why AC_FUNC_FNMATCH is marked as an obsolescent
macro in Autoconf. (I'd like to remove more
> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:56:49 -0700
> From: Eric Blake
> CC: bug-autoconf@gnu.org
>
> Have you considered priming a config.site cache to work around these
> problems by default?
I might do that, but I thought reporting the problems here will
contribute to their solution at some future time,
On 01/07/2012 07:38 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> [Please CC me on the responses, as I'm not subscribed to the list.]
Using reply-all is list policy, anyways.
>
> Configuring several packages for building on MS-Windows with MinGW, I
> bumped several times into a situation where the configure script
