Re: AC_DEFINE-descriptions with 2.14*

[Akim Demaille]

| 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)

Wow!  If I offended you in some way, I apologize.

Back to the topic.

Well, you're talking about implementation, and this is not the point:
the uses, the needs are the real issue.

I'm just asking for more details to understand what are his specific
needs.