>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andreas> When trying to generate more than 250 files with one
Andreas> configure script (like the kdebase package wants to do)
Wow!!!
Andreas> you'll hit the nesting limit of m4 (due to the fact that
Andreas> loops are implemented through recursion). Currently there is
Andreas> no way increase this limit from the autoconf invocation. How
Andreas> about adding an option so that, say,
Andreas> --m4-options=--nesting-limit=300 can fix that?
You can export M4='m4 --options'. I'm not in favor of having official
means to pass options to m4, that's really an implementation detail.
Andreas> Or maybe this limit should be increased by default?
Yep, it sounds very reasonable.
What would you suggest? Jump to say 1024?
