>>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> Since this error message always uses the line-number of the
Lars> first macro and not the failed macro, couldn't we change scheme
Lars> to insert a line like the following in `configure' for each
Lars> top-level macro invocation (hopefully easy to detect)?:
Lars> #line configure.ac:43
Lars> Then we can scan for the last line of that kind before the first
Lars> occurence of the macro name in `configure' and output that the
Lars> problem is somewhere below that point.
That would considerably slow down Autoconf, not to mention the
difficulty to implement this without polluting genuine output.
In addition, I don't understand why you limit this to top level
invocations.
But, maybe there is something to do with traces. Trying to define the
`undefined' symbols and trace there expansion. Hm. Nah, way too hard
(since it means you have to disable quotation etc.), and in addition
running traces doubles the time spent in autoconf.
