Hi Brian, * Brian Barrett wrote on Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:53:12PM CET: > On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:34 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Brian Barrett wrote on Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 11:53:41PM CET: > >> It's the thread that never ends... :)
Hehe. > > 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. Not really: it's been in config/ompi_get_version.m4 before, I just conserved it. > 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. I know that some BSD versions try to use their m4 for autotools. At least OpenBSD has some patches in their ports to not disallow it. Since I have little experience as to how far this actually works, I figured to rather not remove the comment. I'd really like to know about systems and hear about experience with non-GNU m4 and autotools, though. If it's easy to keep them compatible with it, I believe we should not hinder it. Cheers, Ralf
