> "Mirar" == Mirar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mirar> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > "Mirar" == Mirar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> >> # We need balanced brackets: [
Mirar> That solution works, but is darn ugly to have to use.
>> So use @>:@.
Mirar> Does that work i
> "Mirar" == Mirar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mirar> After looking into things a little bit more today, I can say:
Mirar> What the heck is with this totally overexaggerated quoting in
Mirar> macros?
Sorry, that's exactly the converse: what the heck is this idea that
one can write program
> Sorry, that's exactly the converse: what the heck is this idea that
> one can write program without paying attention to the programming
> language? M4 is a programming language, it comes with its rules, and
> if you disregard them, _you_ are wrong.
In this case, from my viewpoint, using quotin
> "Mirar" == Mirar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mirar> Since m4 environment will not let you change the environment
Mirar> (changequote) if you need to use quoting in macros, I think
Mirar> this was a good idea. I think major the design miss was to use
Mirar> m4 in the first place, since it d
> Mirar> Since m4 environment will not let you change the environment
> Mirar> (changequote) if you need to use quoting in macros, I think
> Mirar> this was a good idea. I think major the design miss was to use
> Mirar> m4 in the first place, since it doesn't work well in
> Mirar> API-to-black-box
> "Mirar" == Mirar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mirar> Yes, and M4's approach doesn't work well if you don't set up
Mirar> your macro library yourself. What I call black box is when
Mirar> someone else sets up and maintains something that you only get
Mirar> an API to, something you only can
Hi,
I found a typo in `autoreconf.sh' ($localddir -> $localdir).
Index: autoreconf.sh
===
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/autoreconf.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -u -r1.59 autoreconf.sh
--- autoreconf.sh 2000/11/16 10:12:51 1
On Dec 20, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Everything configures and makes OK but when I try to do a make distcheck, I
> get the following error:
> configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in config/ or
> ../config/
Did you arrange for these files to be included in the distribut
Mirar wrote:
> And I *can* use every possible character inside a string; both the
> '\"' and '\042' mechanisms make sure of that. In a raw m4 environment,
> I don't have that possibility without changequote.
> Is that - define - going to be dropped too, btw?
You see :-). I do think AutoGen the
