Re: autoreconf and m4_pattern_allow

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Robert,

* Robert Lowe wrote on Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:36:23AM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> >Well, m4 macros have no way to guard against overwriting or anything.
> >So the only way to have "namespaces" (note the quotes) is to use some
> >sort of simple criterion for where the macro comes from.  AC_* should
> >denote macros from plain Autoconf itself. 

> This macro is from the autoconf archive.  Should I submit a patch to
> change it to ACX_* ??

No, probably not: the macro is already published, so there may already
be users: we'd have to either get them to change or provide the old name
for backward compatibility anyway.  This is mainly for new or
unpublished macros.

Noah's advice was much more applicable to your issue than mine.  :-)

Cheers,
Ralf