Revert "AC_PROG_CC: define via AC_DEFUN_ONCE". (#110350)
Revert commit
18c140b50b0619454d4da50d58a318cc257d580a, restoring
AC_PROG_CC to being defined as an ordinary AC_DEFUN. This broke
third-party macros (e.g. the Autoconf Macro Archive’s
AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD) that intentionally invoked AC_PROG_CC a second
time with its guts redefined via a whole bunch of ‘pushdef’s. I don’t
think we want to support this long-term, but needing access to a
build-native compiler in cross-compilation is common enough that we
should have *some* supported way to do it, and it may as well be
AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD until we come up with something better.
If we go back to AC_DEFUN_ONCE for AC_PROG_CC in the future, we should
do it consistently for all the “find me a compiler” macros -- it
was *only* done for AC_PROG_CC in
18c140b5.
The rationale for AC_DEFUN_ONCE seems to have been to reduce the size
of the generated configure script. The bulk of the size accountable to
AC_PROG_CC is the test programs for figuring out which version of the
C standard is available, so I tweaked _AC_C_STD_TRY (and _AC_CXX_STD_TRY)
to emit that text only once per program, into shell variables which
can then be referenced repeatedly.
Fixes bug #110350.
* NEWS, doc/autoconf.texi: Revert documentation changes associated
with AC_PROG_CC being a one-shot macro.
* lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_PROG_CC): Revert to defining with AC_DEFUN.
(_AC_C_STD_TRY, _AC_CXX_STD_TRY): Emit the test program only once,
even if invoked multiple times with the same arguments.
* tests/foreign.at (AX_PROG_CC_FOR_BUILD, AX_PROG_CXX_FOR_BUILD):
New tests.