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Would it be worth adding __program__ macro, to go along with __file__ and
__line__, which expands to argv[0] in the same manner that error messages
do? That way, if a user invokes m4 via a symlink or absolute path, rather
than through their PATH, they can match internal m4 messages. They can
also use that information to invoke a sub-m4 in syscmd using the same
version of m4 currently running, rather than picking up an arbitrary m4
from PATH.
I noticed this when testing mingw on branch-1_4. When running a mingw
application, argv[0] includes .exe, so the code in checks/check-them runs
sed -e "s| m4:| $m4|" on expected output messages, where $m4 was
determined earlier, to match output correctly. This has worked great when
all our message violated GNU coding standards ("file:line: m4: message"),
but when I experimented with swapping error messages to be compliant
("m4:file:line: message"), and changed the sed script to -e
"s|^m4:|$m4:|", it broke the tests that did
"errprint(`m4:'__line__:__file__`: message')", because those messages now
match the sed rules, but do not output the .exe that internal error
messages used.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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