Re: AC_DEFINE-descriptions with 2.14*

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On 17 Jul 2000, Akim Demaille wrote:

> 
> | > Maybe AC_DEFINE(`echo FOO`) used to be understood by autoheader, but
> | > it was a misfeature.  In the general case, this cannot be done,
> | > hence it must never work :)
> | 
> | AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(`echo FOO`). Why can't it work? What happened in
> | 2.13 was that you ended up with
> | 
> | cat << END
> | #undef `echo FOO`
> | END
> 
> :)  This is what I call not to work properly :)  Try with your $x for
> instance.  It would work only for trivial examples.

...such as this one.

(it's a legal here-document, in case you hadn't noticed)

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