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@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ GNU Autoconf NEWS - User visible changes.
variables used later in the configure script, or in generated
Makefiles.
- - Autoconf macros that use AC_REQUIRE internally, are not safe to
- use inside of hand-written shell control-flow constructs. Use
- AS_IF, AS_CASE, AS_FOR, etc. instead. (See the “Prerequisite
- Macros” section of the manual for further explanation.)
+ - Autoconf macros that use AC_REQUIRE are not safe to use in shell
+ control-flow constructs that appear outside of macros defined by
+ AC_DEFUN. Use AS_IF, AS_CASE, etc. instead. (See the
+ “Prerequisite Macros” section of the manual for details.)
The set of macros that use AC_REQUIRE internally may change from
release to release. The only macros that are guaranteed *not* to