+2020-09-18 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ Add back gl_SILENT.
+ * m4/gnulib-common.m4 (GL_TMP_FD, gl_SILENT): New macros.
+
2020-09-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
c-stack-tests: fix -fsanitize=undefined false alarm
-# gnulib-common.m4 serial 59
+# gnulib-common.m4 serial 60
dnl Copyright (C) 2007-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
AC_C_BIGENDIAN
])
+# A temporary file descriptor.
+# Must be less than 10, because dash 0.5.8 does not support redirections
+# with multi-digit file descriptors.
+m4_define([GL_TMP_FD], 9)
+
+# gl_SILENT(command)
+# executes command, but without the normal configure output.
+# This is useful when you want to invoke AC_CACHE_CHECK (or AC_CHECK_FUNC etc.)
+# inside another AC_CACHE_CHECK.
+AC_DEFUN([gl_SILENT],
+[
+ exec GL_TMP_FD>&AS_MESSAGE_FD AS_MESSAGE_FD>/dev/null
+ $1
+ exec AS_MESSAGE_FD>&GL_TMP_FD GL_TMP_FD>&-
+])
+
# gl_CACHE_VAL_SILENT(cache-id, command-to-set-it)
# is like AC_CACHE_VAL(cache-id, command-to-set-it), except that it does not
# output a spurious "(cached)" mark in the midst of other configure output.