Re: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED and autoheader

[Ben Pfaff]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

>>     According to the autoconf manual, AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED is able
>>     to handle variables as its first argument.  Yet it appears it
>>     cannot.  Perhaps autoheader must extrapolate what possible
>>     values will be defined, and it just fails to do that here.
>>     Regardless, the result is that the value does not get
>>     defined, causing (in this case) an obscure bug.
>> 
>> I believe that this is a documentation bug.
>
> Yes, but not in the way that your change suggests: autoheader cannot do
> its job with an AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED which gets a non-literal first
> argument.  But the rest of the machinery very well can, and it has
> explicit code in place to cope with non-literal first argument.  We even
> have an example in the manual that does this.
>
> You simply need to provide a template elsewhere.

Thanks for the analysis and the suggested update to the manual.
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