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authorZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2013-09-15 17:16:18 -0400
committerZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2013-09-21 20:02:47 -0400
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Expose the checks done by AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT as a public macro.
* lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (_AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT_REQUIREMENTS): Rename to AC_CHECK_INCLUDES_DEFAULT. All callers changed. (AC_HEADER_STDC, AC_UNISTD_H): Use AC_CHECK_INCLUDES_DEFAULT instead of previous kludge. * doc/autoconf.texi, NEWS: Document AC_CHECK_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.
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@@ -94,6 +94,13 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
These macros were already labeled obsolescent in the manual.
+- New macro, AC_CHECK_INCLUDES_DEFAULT. It causes the checks normally
+ performed as a side-effect by AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT to happen at that
+ point in 'configure', if they haven't already been done. Autoupdate
+ will replace certain obsolete constructs, whose only remaining
+ useful effect is to trigger those checks, with this macro. It is
+ unlikely to be useful otherwise.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.69 (2012-04-24) [stable]
** Autoconf now requires perl 5.6 or better (but generated configure