Re: 06AS_HELP_STRING-robust-to-commas.diff

[Derek Robert Price]

Derek Robert Price wrote:

> Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> > | Index: lib/autoconf/general.m4
> > | ===================================================================
> > | RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autoconf/general.m4,v
> > | retrieving revision 1.813
> > | diff -u -r1.813 general.m4
> > | --- lib/autoconf/general.m4    27 Mar 2003 13:18:34 -0000    1.813
> > | +++ lib/autoconf/general.m4    28 Mar 2003 21:19:03 -0000
> > | @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
> > |  # AU::AC_HELP_STRING(LHS, RHS, [COLUMN])
> > |  # ----------------------------------
> > |  AU_DEFUN([AC_HELP_STRING],
> > | -[AS_HELP_STRING(address@hidden)dnl
> > | +[AS_HELP_STRING([$1],[$2],[$3])dnl
> > |  ])
> > |  | 
> > This is noop, so please, remove it.
> >  
>
> Sorry, I thought I was waiting for another response from you on this 
> one.  Was that the final word?  Help strings are not a general enough 
> idiom to be useful in Autoshell?


Ah, I see what you mean.  That's what I thought, but I managed to get it 
to break in the one case and not another.  I'll try and recreate the error.

Derek

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