Follow-up Comment #5, sr #110886 (project autoconf): Yeah, these are all aspects of another really basic limitation: the _only_ thing autoupdate can fix is obsolete macros. It can't fix quotation errors, it can't fix badly placed `dnl`, and it can't fix misuse of `AC_REQUIRE`. And all these things may cause it to produce ill-formed output.
If you're seriously thinking of working on this, I think you should look at writing your own dedicated parser for machine-assisted refactoring of Autoconf scripts. It's not going to be easy. I'd probably start with the [https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ tree-sitter] grammar for Bash (there currently isn't a tree-sitter grammar for either M4 or POSIX shell without Bash extensions). _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110886> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
