Re: Autoconf fails test 4 with m4-1.4.7a

[Eric Blake]

Stepan Kasal <kasal <at> ucw.cz> writes:

> It can be argued that the occurence of ONE starts on line 3, so it
> would be better to report that line number.  But since TWO is
> expanded ``inside'' the expansion of ONE, the ``more friendly'' line
> number output would be:
> ONE on line 3
> TWO on line 3
> 
> It can be tricky to achieve that goal, but I believe it is possible.
> 
> But current m4 goes only half-way, saying:
> ONE on line 3
> TWO on line 5

CVS branch-1_4 of M4 now goes all the way, listing line 3 for both macros with 
my latest patch.  And CVS head will soon follow.

http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=7000212&framed=y

Thanks for the suggestion!

-- 
Eric Blake