Re: Manual handling of arguments

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/21/2007 12:30 PM:
> Hello Olaf, and sorry for the delay,

Hello Ralf, and thanks for working on this,

> Here's a patch to try, including a test to help ensure that we don't
> regress here again.  OK to apply?

The patch looks fine.  Go ahead and commit.

> 
> FWIW, the test isn't as good as it could be: through diversion, code
> can be pushed up to the initialization stage due to macros invoked
> later.  I don't see a good way to guard for future code (that could
> be in a new macro that uses diversions) and I didn't find at a rough
> glance any other existing macro in Autoconf that could break this.

I couldn't think of anything either, other than grepping the autoconf
source for 'set [^-]', which didn't seem much more reliable.

>       * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_SITE_LOAD): Do not overwrite "$@"
>       here, this macro is expanded by AC_INIT.  Fixes 2.60 regression.
>       * tests/base.at (configure arguments): New test.
>       Report by Olaf Lenz <address@hidden>.

Don't forget to update THANKS.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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