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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 2:55 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Yeah, I've been burnt by that too recently.  It occurs to me we could make
>> that at least a little less painful if we formatted the macro with one
>> line per function name:
>> 
>> AC_CHECK_FUNCS([
>> cbrt
>> clock_gettime
>> fdatasync
>> ...
>> wcstombs_l
>> ])
>> 
>> You'd still get conflicts in configure itself, of course, but that
>> doesn't require manual work to resolve -- just re-run autoconf.

> +1, was about to suggest the same!

Sold, I'll go do it.

			regards, tom lane