Re: autoconf --trace MACROS works for AC_* marcoses only?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Peter,

* Peter Volkov wrote on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:07:03PM CEST:
> Does autoconf --trace MACROS works for AC_* marcoses only?

No, but autoconf needs to know what a macro is; IOW, it needs to see a
macro definition somewhere.

> I've tried to
> use it to find AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION macros, but it failed:
> 
> $ autoconf-2.63 -t AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
> $ grep AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION configure.ac 
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.12.1])

Running aclocal should help to get a definition of
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in place, if aclocal can find it.

HTH.

Cheers,
Ralf