Re: shell function for AS_ERROR

[Paolo Bonzini]

Eric Blake wrote:
> My recent patches to AS_EXIT actually bulked up the size of configure 
> scripts, 
> thanks to the use of $as_status when AS_ERROR is used without a second 
> argument 
> (which is most of the time).  What do you think of this patch for trimming 
> things back down?

Good!

> I checked that bin/autoconf, tests/testsuite, and configure 
> all get the correct number and location of as_fn_error definitions (and it 
> wasn't very easy, since I intentionally made the shell function definition 
> dependent on whether logging is in use, so that bin/autoconf's version is 
> lighter-weight than configure's version).

I appreciate the effort, but is this really necessary?  How much do you
save?

Paolo

ps: I did read the patch. :-)