Re: Release candidate

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:57:57PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Akim Demaille writes:
> 
> > | There is still the problem that autoconf mixes up variable assignments
> > | and macros.  This is up-to-the-minute CVS autoconf:
> > |
> > |         address@hidden configure.in
> > |         AC_INIT
> > |
> > |         AM_CFLAGS=foo
> > |         address@hidden
> > |         configure.in:3: error: undefined macro: AM_CFLAGS
> > |         address@hidden
> 
> Maybe it would be more helpful to write "possibly undefined macro: xxx",
> along with a description in the documentation, if you don't have one
> already.

Maybe I don't see what others see.  To me,

        FOO=bar

looks like a shell variable assignment.  I don't understand why
autoconf (apparently) treats this as a macro invocation.

Am I missing something fundamental here????
-S

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