Re: Bug in AX_APPEND_LINK_FLAGS

Peter Simons <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:34:20 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.archive-maintainers
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Mike,

you submitted the following patch to AX_APPEND_LINK_FLAGS a while ago:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf-archive.git/commit/m4/ax_append_link_flags.m4?id=7d5e9315f7b93843f7d65699eebfec742323a483

Now, Peter De Wachter reports the following phenomenon:

  > If you do something like:
  >
  >     AX_APPEND_LINK_FLAGS([--foo])
  >
  > configure prints a bogus extra line:
  >
  >     checking whether the linker accepts ... yes
  >     checking whether the linker accepts --foo... yes
  >
  > This bug is introduced by commit 7d5e9315: serial 3 (the current
  > version) has this bug, serial 2 not.

Do you, by any chance, have an idea how to explain and/or remedy this
behavior?

Take care,
Peter