On Nov 6, 2000, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not just prefix the reserved autoconf variables with a `_'
> character?
autoconf used to use just AC_/ac_. Now, it's claiming ownership of
all of A?_. That looks a little bit exagerated to me.
--
Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana',
--- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So, how about something like a special comment/macro stating what are
> the *words* that are allowed. Something like
>
> m4_accept_literals([AR_FLAGS], [lt_cv_AR_FLAGS])
>
> then autoconf.sh would just gather these guys, and say nothing about
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Akim Demaille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 10:58 AM
> To: Alexandre Oliva
> Cc: Pavel Roskin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Forbidden strings
>
>
> > "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'd rather take almost the full range and except AR if we need to.
Alexandre> I'd prefer that the maintainers of autoconf weren't so
Alexandre> greedy about prefixes :-)
In fact my position (let's take the full range) is also b
