Hunting down bugs in m4 macros sucks. Using $# in macros sucks, too.
Sorry for the cross-post.
First: LT_WITH_LTDL needs to be documented correctly. Its predecessor
AC_WITH_LTDL needed documentation as well. I accept patches. :)
Second: Autoconf bug: AU_ALIAS mumbles with the number of argum
Hallo Ralf,
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hunting down bugs in m4 macros sucks. Using $# in macros sucks, too.
:-( Can you document in HACKING that because of our use of AU_ALIAS to
maintain backwards compatibility with earlier libtool interfaces we must
not use $# in m4.
Also, we could do with an
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:09:01PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Second: Autoconf bug: AU_ALIAS mumbles with the number of arguments:
A modified version of Ralf's example:
cat >configure.ac <<\EOF
AC_INIT
AC_DEFUN([FOO],
[echo foo: $#])
AU_ALIAS([BAZ],[FOO])
FOO
FOO()
FOO(1)
ec
Hi Stepan,
Sorry for the delay.
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:19:24AM CEST:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:09:01PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Second: Autoconf bug: AU_ALIAS mumbles with the number of arguments:
>
> A modified version of Ralf's example:
*snip* (see in patch
Hello,
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 04:17:52PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> :-( Can you document in HACKING that because of our use of AU_ALIAS to
> maintain backwards compatibility with earlier libtool interfaces we must
> not use $# in m4.
actually, I'd prefer if you could put it this way:
The
Hi Stepan,
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:16:06PM CEST:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 04:17:52PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > :-( Can you document in HACKING that because of our use of AU_ALIAS to
> > maintain backwards compatibility with earlier libtool interfaces we must
> > n
Hello again,
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:56:41PM CEST:
> * Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:19:24AM CEST:
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:09:01PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > Second: Autoconf bug: AU_ALIAS mumbles with the number of arguments:
> >
> > A t
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:40:31AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * tests/tools.at (autoupdating AU_ALIAS): New test for AU_ALIAS
> `$#' bug.
> (autoupdate): Updated to match AU_ALIAS fix.
This looks sound, as does the fix it tests.
Thanks, Ralf; can you please install those two patches?
