> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:53:27 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr>
> Cc: "bug-autoconf@gnu.org" <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>, bug-texi...@gnu.org
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:14:01PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > Here are the errors that I'm getting:
> >
> > autoconf.texi:8018: Misplaced }
>
> I think that this is correct (and my guess is that the other are in fact
> consequences and similar other issues). Indeed, there is a @macro:
>
> @macro ovar{varname}
> @r{[}@var{\varname\}@r{]}@c
> @end macro
>
> Called like:
> @defmac AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN (@ovar{action-if-found}, @dvar{action-if-not-found,
> @
> AC_MSG_FAILURE})
>
> The trouble comes from the @c, indeed, the macro expansion leads to
> @defmac AC_F77_DUMMY_MAIN (@r{[}@var{action-if-found}@r{]}@c,
> @dvar{action-if-not-found, @
> AC_MSG_FAILURE})
> which means that the end of the line is ignored.
This is wrong, the newline at the end of the macro (after the @c)
should be part of the macro expansion. AFAIR, this is how the C
makeinfo worked, because the newline was collected as part of the
macro body when the @macro..@end macro block was processed.
IOW, this is an incompatible change in behavior. Can the new makeinfo
be compatible, please?
