Re: *.m4 conventions

2024-05-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2024-05-13 13:23, Bruno Haible wrote: # stdio_h.m4 - Autoconf macros for the stdio module. # serial 42 Oh, I didn't know you could do that. Thanks, I'll keep it in mind.

Re: *.m4 conventions

2024-05-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > Although that's true for experts, it's not necessarily true for > beginners who are the main audience for the first line. A beginner won't > know whether stdio_h.m4 is for the entire stdio module, or just for > configuring the stdio.h replacement, or just for configuring

Re: *.m4 conventions

2024-05-13 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2024-05-13 09:57, Bruno Haible wrote: Note that in Gnulib, a human-readable comment # Autoconf macros for the stdio module. is just as trivial as this comment: # stdio_h.m4 Although that's true for experts, it's not necessarily true for beginners who are the main audience for the

Re: *.m4 conventions

2024-05-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > Is this stuff documented somewhere in the .texi files? If not, I suppose > it should be. Done through the patch below. > Frankly I continue to be annoyed by having to read and write a line "# > FILENAME.m4" at the start of every m4 file FILENAME.m4. It's better for > a