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Re: How should long messages be displayed
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Eric Blake |
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Re: How should long messages be displayed |
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Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:53:37 -0500 |
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On 9/17/19 11:38 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> One of my autoconf script has a long notice mesage, i.e. over 80
> characters. I am already using m4_normalize to be able to write the
> message nicely in the configure.ac file, but at the moment the printed
> message generates a very long line and I am wondering whether something
> is recommended to deal with this situation? Do I have to insert an
> end-of-line character explicitly in the string, or is there a way to let
> autoconf format the notice messages nicely by itself as is done for help
> strings?
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> Many thanks in advance for any hint!
Can you paste the actual portion of the configure.ac in question?
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