Re: Improve the AC_REQUIRE error message

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stepan,

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 03:06:22PM CEST:
> 
> I noticed that the following error message is suboptimal, it should
> mention AC_DEFUN instead of m4_defun:
> 
> configure.ac:12: error: AC_REQUIRE(AC_PROG_CC): cannot be used outside of an 
> m4_defun'd macro
> 
> What about the following hack to fix it?

It would need at least a test.  But it's broken anyway:
$ cat configure.ac
AC_DEFUN([FOO])
m4_defun([BAR])
AC_INIT
AC_REQUIRE([FOO])
m4_require([BAR])
AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])
AC_OUTPUT
$ autoconf
configure.ac:4: error: AC_REQUIRE(FOO): cannot be used outside of an 'd macro

Cheers,
Ralf

> 2006-06-02  Stepan Kasal  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_require): Modify the error
>       message issued by AC_REQUIRE.