<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 19:13 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Alan Coopersmith <<A HREF="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</A>> wrote: > On 04/27/11 03:54 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> IMO, you should at least AC_SUBST the variable if you want to use it >> somewhere else. > > I just wanted to make it available to the XORG_TLS macro Jeremy's working > on, not in a Makefile - is AC_SUBST needed for that? > > On the other hand it doesn't hurt, so I can easily add it anyway. My thinking is that it's odd to depend on an internal variable of another macro. AC_SUBST doesn't change anything, but at least it's being announced. I'm just being pedantic, though. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I agree. By virtue of usage, AC_SUBST has acquired a "public" declaration role.<BR> The value is stored in config.status and config.log which helps debugging.<BR> <BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> -- Dan _______________________________________________ <A HREF="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.x.org">xorg-devel@lists.x.org</A>: X.Org development Archives: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel</A> Info: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>