Re: [Quilt-dev] [RFC] compatibility layer

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:42, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On 9/18/05, Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:10, John Vandenberg wrote:
> > > The attached patch takes it one step further.  Each program
> > > can have many functionality checks, and configure will fail, or fall
> > > back, if any check fails.
> >
> > Sounds useful, but no attachment as far as I can see.
>
> Sorry; here it is.

Entirely removing the failure message doesn't sound like a good idea. I think 
the reply to AC_MSG_CHECKING should be AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) or 
AC_MSG_RESULT(no), not AC_MSG_WARN. If the error message comes from outside 
the test, the calling wrapper can print the test result itself.

> > I would like to get rid of compatfns. How about the attached patch?
>
> OK

Done, thanks.

Cheers,
Andreas.