On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:34 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hi Brian,
* Brian Barrett wrote on Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:53:41PM CET:
Ralf, I was wondering if you could take a look at what I actually
committed (r8779) and let me know what you think. It's mostly your
patch, but I rewrote a good chunk of the m4 macro to take better
advantage of m4 and ditch all the extra variables that get eval'ed at
the end so that a prefix can be passed. We never pass in anything
other than a literal, so there's no problems with that. Seems to be
a lot shorter, although slightly more complicated to understand.
Yes, much nicer indeed. Seems fine to me.
I'd appreciate my name being spelled correctly, though.
Sorry about that (said with very red face). The svn history has been
amended.
A mostly unrelated question, to fulfill this: ;-)
It's the thread that never ends... :)
Which systems' m4 is capable of translating the configury but does not
ignore unquoted [eval]? (See comment in ompi_get_version.m4.)
I was actually going to ask you about that -- that comment came from
your original patch. I was under the impression that AC actually
required GNU m4 these days. At least, Autoconf's configure complains
quite loudly when I build on Solaris or AIX and forget to have a GNU
m4 build in my path. I've always operated under the assumption
developers had to have GNU m4, as I couldn't see how they built AC
otherwise.
Brian
