Re: AC_PROVIDE{_IFELSE} not documented?

Nick Bowler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
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On 18/06/2023, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe I'm going blind, but it seems that AC_PROVIDE and
> AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE are not documented in the Autoconf manual. AC_PROVIDE
> is mentioned but not described.  AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE is not mentioned.

When I reported this many years ago, the response[1] at the time was
"the macros are stable and intended to be usable; we're just missing
the documentation patch."

But neither I nor anyone else stepped up to actually write it.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2012-12/msg00000.html

Cheers,
  Nick
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