Hi Ralf, > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/General-Operation.html
Thank you for helping me out with that link. I changed the distribution format of the Autoconf Macro Archive to avoid '#####' style comments. > IIRC the rationale is that one may want to have comments that should not > appear in the generated files, such as the example in the manual. That is a reasonable goal, but I think it's somewhat counter-intuitive that aclocal -- which is a tool that deals exclusively with Autoconf macros -- behaves completely differently than Autoconf does in that regard. In Autoconf, 'dnl'-style comments will be stripped and '#'-style comments will be preserved -- aclocal preserves both 'dnl' and '#', but strips '##'. It's perfectly alright, of course, it's just not what an Autoconf user would expect. Anyway, it's a minor thing, really. Thanks a lot for your quick response. Best regards, Peter
