Re: Newbee : back on trak -> Thank you!

[Karl Schmitt]

Thanks thousand times,
you put me back on trak.
There was a similar issue
and I was able to resolve it
my self.

I can run the configure script
right now and have to continue
to debug from here.

Thanks, Karl

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Karl Schmitt wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 04:37:53PM CEST:
>  
>
> > it was actually me who added that nasty "dnl" :-(
> > I did as you told and got the next or prior problem
> > which was the reason why I added that nasty "dnl"
> >    
>
> Why didn't you say so right away?
>
>  
>
> > address@hidden:/vobs/old_cvs_stuff7> aclocal
> > configure.in:618: error: `src/plandisp/Makefile' is already registered 
> > with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
> >    
>
> Yes, because the file is listed twice, just a few lines away.  Just
> remove the line completely, so that the file is listed only once.
>
>
> In case you're interested in the reason behind the failure with dnl:
> The AC_OUTPUT macro makes m4 look at its arguments in order.  And you
> quote the argument list once.  Like so:
>  AC_OUTPUT([file1
>  file2
>  file3
>  ...
>  ])
>
> If you wanted to correctly comment out a line here, so that m4 would not
> see the 'dnl' in the list at all, you would have to write something like
> this:
>  AC_OUTPUT([file1
>  file2
>  ]dnl file3
>  [file4
>  ...
>  ])
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
>
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