"thread-safe" mkdir -p

2019-09-27 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for autoconf
I see that already in 2009 most of the references to "thread-safe" were changed to talk about races instead. However the message output by configure still says "checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p"; would it be worth changing that too? -- https://rrt.sc3d.org

Time for a release?

2020-04-02 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for autoconf
I would like to test whether I can use C11. I discover from git that this functionality was added in 2012 to AC_PROG_CC, a few months after the 2.69 release. I have a vague memory that there's a long-term plan for a major new version of autoconf, but is there some reason why there can't be an int

Re: Time for a release?

2020-04-02 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for autoconf
On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 00:42, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 4/2/20 4:14 PM, Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for autoconf wrote: > > is there some reason why there can't be an interim release? > > We're working on it. I say "we" but it's mostly Zack. > Thank

Suggestion for improving an error message

2024-04-06 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for autoconf
Last night I had the baffling error "possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN". Surely "impossibly undefined macro"! Anyway, I was led to the following excellent analysis of the problem: https://ae1020.github.io/undefined-macro-pkg-config/ In my case, I was briefly baffled even further, as I *had* i

Re: Suggestion for improving an error message

2024-04-06 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for autoconf
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 22:05, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. Although I didn't go to the trouble of > writing code to generate the multiline diagnostic you suggested, it's > easy to change "possibly undefined macro" (which doesn't cover the > situation you mentioned) to the slight