On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 04:33:54PM +0100, Peter Hull wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 15:56, Sébastien Hinderer
> wrote:
> > So according to that, I expected that autoconf would call m4 with the -P
> > option and looked at my /usr/bin/autoconf script but it does not seem to
> > contain any occurren
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 15:56, Sébastien Hinderer
wrote:
> So according to that, I expected that autoconf would call m4 with the -P
> option and looked at my /usr/bin/autoconf script but it does not seem to
> contain any occurrence of -P. But perhaps that appears in a sourced file
> or so.
You're r
Hi,
Peter Hull (2023/10/12 15:04 +0100):
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 14:41, Sébastien Hinderer
> wrote:
> > Aht alone was useful. It made me realise that I was using eval, rather
> > than m4_eval. I assume this is why it didn't work as expected.
> >
> > However, eval *is* documented in section 12.2
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 14:41, Sébastien Hinderer
wrote:
> Aht alone was useful. It made me realise that I was using eval, rather
> than m4_eval. I assume this is why it didn't work as expected.
>
> However, eval *is* documented in section 12.2 Evaluating integer
> expressions of the m4 info manual
Dear all,
Apologies for my so late response, when Nick's one came in so promptly
and has been so useful.
Nick Bowler (2023/10/04 16:29 -0400):
> Hi,
>
> On 2023-10-04, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> > I find myself stuck with something which I assume is trivial. I define:
> >
> > m4_define([X], [9]
On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2023-10-04, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> > I find myself stuck with something which I assume is trivial. I define:
> >
> > m4_define([X], [9])
> > m4_define([Y], [3])
> >
> > And I would like to define Z as being the arithme
Hi,
On 2023-10-04, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> I find myself stuck with something which I assume is trivial. I define:
>
> m4_define([X], [9])
> m4_define([Y], [3])
>
> And I would like to define Z as being the arithmetic sum of X and Y and
> can seem to get it.
>
> I tried several variations of
