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Re: Comments on auto* macros
>> But I must admit that (as an auto* layman), I am still quite
>> confused after reading these pages. E.g., I just spent some
>> half hour to find out that the AM_PATH_GSL test has to come
>> before the AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS switch, because the c++ compiler
>> otherwise complains about an implicit cast in line 74 of
>> gsl.m4. The same seems to hold for the inline tests. Is this
>> ordering of tests absolutely trivial for anyone experienced
>> with autoconf? If not, could you include a hint in the
>> documentation?
Brian> I think the macros had only been used with a C compiler not
Brian> C++, so that problem hadn't been encountered before. I'll
Brian> add that to the documentation.
Yep, sorry for that. I've wrote the AM_PATH_GSL using just a C
compiler, never tried with a C++. Sorry if my documentation patch
wasn't complete enough.
Regards,
--
Christopher