[OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] gettext: fix implicit build result

[Burton, Ross]

On 17 July 2014 08:58, Ming Liu <ming.liu at windriver.com> wrote:
> Some "once only" variants are being defined instead of standard autoconf
> macros, for instance, AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE like AC_CHECK_HEADERS. The
> advantage is that the check for each of the headers will be put only once
> into the 'configure' file, therefore it keeps the size down. But there
> is also a drawback that the checks then will turn to be statically inserted
> to the configure and cannot be conditionalized any more. It will
> definitely break the dependencies chosen as internally included.

I'm confused as to why this breaks anything, and if it does break
gettext then it's not embedded-specific but an upstream bug in the
configure script, surely.  Can you explain what the problem is?

Ross