Hello,
sorry that I reply to my own post.
When I mentioned this "sed code"
> > > /@[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ {
> > > s/\n/\\&/g
> > > s/@[EMAIL PROTECTED]//
> > > s/\\$/& /
> > > }
I didn't knew that some make implementations swallow empty lines after
a line ending with backslash. This means th
Hello,
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:51:55AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > In other words, after the usual sed substtitutions, the following
> > sed code is executed:
> > /@[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ {
> > s/\n/\\&/g
> > s/@[EMAIL PROTECTED]//
> > s/\\$/& /
> > }
>
> Oh, ahh. Nifty! Only t
I'm sorry don't have time to read this whole thread in detail
right now, but here are some thoughts (probably contradictory).
We already have AC_SUBST_FILE. Shouldn't we also have
AC_SUBST_MULTILINE or some such? This way we can tell the
difference from --trace, and use something like @\n@ only
[ removed automake-patches, its readers are likely to read here, too,
and this isn't about a patch ]
Hi Stepan,
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:37:22PM CEST:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > I believe what Stepan meant was:
*snip*
>
> not e
Hello,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> I believe what Stepan meant was:
> If the status.m4 code encounters [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@\n@', where `FOO' has
> been
> AC_SUBSTed, then treat the replacement of the complete string
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@\n@' in a special way
Hi Simon, Stepan,
* Simon Richter wrote on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:53:55AM CEST:
> Stepan Kasal schrieb:
>
> > AC_SUBST([FOO], ["foo
> > bar"])
> > Automake could generate lines like this:
>
> > FOO = @FOO@@\n@
>
> There are a lot of cases, in fact, the majority, where the substituted
> strin
Hello,
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:53:55AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> Stepan Kasal schrieb:
> > FOO = @FOO@@\n@
>
> There are a lot of cases, in fact, the majority, where the substituted
> string is only known at configure time, when the Makefile.in files have
> long been generated.
of course.
Hi Stepan,
Stepan Kasal schrieb:
> AC_SUBST([FOO], ["foo
> bar"])
[...]
> Automake could generate lines like this:
> FOO = @FOO@@\n@
There are a lot of cases, in fact, the majority, where the substituted
string is only known at configure time, when the Makefile.in files have
long been generat
Hello,
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:55:38PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> I have another solution for the problem of multiline substitutions
first, let me sum up the problem:
If you use
AC_SUBST([FOO], ["foo
bar"])
in your configure.ac, then Automake traces it, and puts
FOO = @FOO@
to each Make
