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Re: An autoconf tutorial.
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: An autoconf tutorial. |
Date: |
Wed, 25 May 2005 11:06:49 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hi Ed,
Please keep the mailing list copied, this is interesting for others as
well. Thank you.
* E. Rosten wrote on Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:53:13AM CEST:
> On Wed, 25 May 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >* E. Rosten wrote on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:59:05PM CEST:
> >
> >| M4 arguments are quoted with [ and ]. There is NO WAY to escape these,
> >| however, you can change the quoting using:
> >|
> >| changequote(<<,>>)
*snip*
> >Please don't encourage use of changequote.
>
> How come?
Documented in
info Autoconf 'Changequote is Evil'
> >Rather quadrigraphs.
>
> What are they (I haven't encountered them)? Is it a way of entering [ and
> ] without [ and ] actually appearing?
Documented in
info Autoconf Quadrigraphs
The whole section around m4 Quotation is interesting for this topic.
Does this short answer help? Note you may need a recent Autoconf
version for these sections, I don't actually know how old they are.
Regards,
Ralf