[PPL-devel] Re: ac_check_gmp.m4 in ppl

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Roberto,

> By the way, googling for AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS
> I have found a thread in the autoconf mailing list that suggests
> your macros were, around May 2002, about to be included in autoconf.
> What happened then?

There were questions whether the macros better fit into autoconf or
into libtool, a question that I could not resolve by myself. Until this
can be resolved, they are a clearly separate part of the GNU gettext
distribution, and also copied into 'gnulib', a general pool of sources and
macros used in GNU packages.

Bruno