Eric Blake wrote:
> > Which of the following code lines should be changed, for maintainability?
> >
> >absolute-header.m4:87: s#^/[^/]#//&#
>
> Underquoted. I'd recommend using | instead of # in the sed snippet
Yes, this will be clearer. Thanks for the advice.
> >csharpcomp.m4:15:
Eric Blake wrote:
> > Underquoted (and autoconf has magic in AC_CHECK_DECL that tries to deal
> > with the underquoting, since this is so common), since the fourth
> > argument of AC_CHECK_DECL is supposed to allow further m4 macro
> > expansion when used properly.
The same apparently holds for
Eric Blake wrote:
> Underquoted (and autoconf has magic in AC_CHECK_DECL that tries to deal
> with the underquoting, since this is so common), since the fourth
> argument of AC_CHECK_DECL is supposed to allow further m4 macro
> expansion when used properly. Should be:
>
> AC_CHECK_DECL([tanl],
On Tuesday 13 September 2011, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 03:09 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Please, can you turn off these "m4 comments" for Autoconf 3.0?
>
> You can turn them off yourself with m4_changecom().
>
Or use the `@%:@' quadrigraph instead of a literal `#'. I've found that
this i
On 09/13/2011 03:09 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Please, can you turn off these "m4 comments" for Autoconf 3.0?
You can turn them off yourself with m4_changecom(). This hasn't been a
regularly requested feature, but I'm worried about the
backwards-compatibility aspect of doing it globally.
No
Hi Eric,
> # is a comment character in m4, which reads until
> end-of-line to end the comment. Which means all the [] after the
> comment character are treated as part of the comment, instead of as m4
> [] quoting.
Thanks for explaining. Now I understand it.
What is called an "m4 comment" is
On 09/10/2011 03:23 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi Eric,
Again, I've stumbled across a behaviour of brackets in autoconf macros that
I don't understand.
If in file m4/include_next.m4 at line 210 I add the following code
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Hi Bruno,
On 10 Sep 2011, at 16:23, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Again, I've stumbled across a behaviour of brackets in autoconf macros that
> I don't understand.
It's just the number of nested quotation levels, with m4 processing always
removing
the outer level whenever text is passed through it.
The
