Hi Ralf,
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/General-Operation.html
Thank you for helping me out with that link. I changed the distribution
format of the Autoconf Macro Archive to avoid '#' style comments.
> IIRC the rationale is that one may want to have comments that
Hi Peter,
* Peter Simons wrote on Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:20:51PM CEST:
>
> It appears that aclocal strips those "# ..." comments while
> copying the macros into the generated aclocal.m4 file.
>
> I was wondering whether this behavior is intentional and,
> assuming that it is, what the ratio
Hi,
the Autoconf Macro Archive distributes m4 source codes that
contain comment lines beginning with multiple '#' characters,
i.e. five of them, as in the following example:
http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/acx_blas.m4
It appears that aclocal strips those "# ..." comments while
copying the
>>> "MF" == Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MF> we hit a bunch of bugs in Gentoo because the dgs package installs a
MF> path_dps.m4 file with a ton of helpful comments explaining how to use it
...
MF> one such snippet looks like:
MF> dnl [2] Put follwoing codes in the acinclud
On Thursday 16 March 2006 19:04, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> ive attached a patch which updates the comment handling in a few places
> under the assumption that the behavior i'm seeing is a bug :)
ok, previous patch was a little too aggressive ... it'd keep '#' comments from
being output to the file
On Thursday 16 March 2006 19:04, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> ive attached a patch which updates the comment handling in a few places
> under the assumption that the behavior i'm seeing is a bug :)
seems the deletion of '#.*' is too aggressive ... updated patch removes just
dnl comments now ...
-mike
On Thursday 16 March 2006 23:24, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Maybe even better if you test the other comment styles as well.
attached
-mike
2006-03-16 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* aclocal.in (scan_configure_dep): Ignore ## lines.
(scan_file): Remove dnl and # comments.
* tests/commen11.
Hi Mike,
* Mike Frysinger wrote on Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:04:29AM CET:
>
> dnl include(path_dps.m4)
>
> the trouble is that aclocal finds the 'include(path_dps.m4)' file and then
> tries to include it resulting in something like:
This sounds definitely like a bug to me.
> --- tests/com
we hit a bunch of bugs in Gentoo because the dgs package installs a
path_dps.m4 file with a ton of helpful comments explaining how to use it ...
one such snippet looks like:
dnl [2] Put follwoing codes in the acinclude.m4
dnl include(path_dps.m4)
dnl [3] Add path_dps.m4 to EXTRA_DIST i
