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    |> I therefore challenge anyone to show a way that Autoconf can determine
    |> the proper value for ORDINARY_LINK.  I don't think this is easy.

    Based on the configuration name?

Using Autoconf means doing it by experiments on the system.
configure.in can also test the configuration name,
which means not using Autoconf.

If it is going to do that, the present method (with .h files) is
easier than listing all the values directly on configure.in.