Re: AC_TYPE_UINT8_T and co

[Paul Eggert]

Patrick Welche <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry for getting email trigger happy - I seem to still be confused... If
>   AC_TYPE_UINT8_T
> is run on a system without uint8_t, a typdef for uint8_t appears in config.h,
> but it is only created at the end of configure, so how would a subsequent
> test in configure see the typedef?

Shell code could look at a cache variable, I suppose.  But the bigger
question is: why would a later test care?