Re: Proto patch for circular dependencies

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 12, 2000, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand :(  How would you present this?

/tmp % ace                                                       nostromo 11:43
autoconf: warning: --macrodir is obsolete, use --autoconf-dir
configure.in:2: AC_REQUIRE: circular dependency of AC_LANG_COMPILER(C)
configure.in:2:           AC_LANG_COMPILER(C) is required by...
configure.in:2:          AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded from...
configure.in:2:         AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
configure.in:2:        AC_PROG_CC is expanded from...
configure.in:2:       AC_LANG_COMPILER(C) is expanded from...
configure.in:2:       AC_LANG_COMPILER(C) is required by...
configure.in:2:      AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded from...
configure.in:2:     AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
configure.in:2:    AC_PROG_CC is expanded from...
configure.in:2:   the top level

Hmm...  It doesn't gain us much, and it would probably be relatively
hard to implement.

In any case, if it weren't too hard, I'd probably remove the line:

configure.in:2:       AC_LANG_COMPILER(C) is expanded from...

since it's already implied by the `required by' in the following line.

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