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authorZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2020-12-01 09:04:26 -0500
committerZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2020-12-01 09:04:26 -0500
commitd7b0636850624927a41dc801748d40c38513f0ab (patch)
tree5afad35b7de124c7e9997ea7b05c9f72ca7a7a16
parent40fa9edce6ad1a05988e4743a7ca64c3a8b3208d (diff)
downloadautoconf-2.69e.tar.gz
Add a note to NEWS about ac_cv_header_stdlib_h not being set...v2.69e
... even though HAVE_STDLIB_H is.
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@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
For compatibility’s sake, the C preprocessor macros STDC_HEADERS,
HAVE_STDLIB_H, and HAVE_STRING_H are defined unconditionally.
These preprocessor macros should be considered obsolescent.
+ However, cache variables like ac_cv_header_stdlib_h are not set;
+ this is intentional, so that AC_CHECK_HEADER([stdlib.h]) will still
+ do a test for the presence of stdlib.h, in case you genuinely need that.
Future releases of Autoconf may reduce the set of headers checked
for by AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.