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Re: tracing output
From: |
Akim Demaille |
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Re: tracing output |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:08:54 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
>>> "EB" == Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> It is probably also technically possible to change autom4te to always
> trace m4_changequote, and use that knowledge that quotes have changed and
> adjust its trace parsing of intermediate traced macros accordingly.
> However, there are autoconf macros in the wild (particularly Bruno
> Haible's macros in gnulib) where the author has intentionally disregarded
> our advice against m4_changequote,
Bummer, that's right, I remember that too...
> which use m4_changequote(,) to disable quotes around certain blocks
> of text; I don't know if it is possible to make autom4te behave
> nicely in the face of disabled quotes if it were to be modified to
> track all quoting changes.
I don't think you should waste your time for explicitly discouraged
practices :)
Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations, Akim Demaille, 2008/04/24