Re: Using AC_C_INLINE blows up C++ tests

[Assar Westerlund]

Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
> If a configure script uses AC_C_INLINE to test the C compiler, and
> then later switches the current language to C++ in order to perform
> C++ tests, the C++ tests will fail if AC_C_INLINE re-defines 'inline'
> to some other string.
> 
> It would be useful if Autoconf would hide any re-definition of inline
> if the current language is not C.

Wouldn't that require autoconf to write multiple config.h for multiple
languages?  That might be a good idea, but it would require the
configure script to tell what things should be in common, and quite a
bit of restructuring of autoconf.