On Wed May 22 21:40 2002 -0500, Mark D. Roth wrote:
> On Wed May 22 15:50 2002 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > My own reaction is positive, but I would suggest that you write up the
> > proposal, as a proposed patch to the manual. (Often the documentation
> > is the hardest to write, so perhaps it'll be easier for you if you
> > implement it and then document it. :-)
>
> No problem. I'll mail the documentation patch to the list when I have
> it done.
While working on this, I noticed that the current autom4te code
reverses the order of the `-I' options before passing them to m4. The
documentation says:
`--include=DIR'
`-I DIR'
Also look for input files in DIR. Multiple invocations
accumulate. Contrary to M4 but in agreement with common sense,
directories are browsed from last to first.
>From my perspective, this behavior is extremely counter-intuitive.
Every other tool that I know of that accepts a `-I' option (including
gcc, GNU make, GNU m4, and perl) prepends the arguments to the search
path in the order specified. As a result, I was extremely surprised
to discover that autoconf does the reverse.
The current behavior seems to date back to revision 1.42 of
bin/autom4te.in from September 5th, 2001. Can someone explain to me
why this change was made? Thanks!
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Mark D. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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