Stony Yakovac wrote: > > I have a case where I am trying to write an autoconf m4 function to > allow me to use several different APIs the same. In at least one case, > that requires me to define a macro, not just a simple > #define FOO 1 > > In trying to do that, I found that AC_DEFINE doesn't like parens no > matter how many "[]"'s you put them in. That lead me to finding the > definition of AC_DEFINE and AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED (mysteriously > identical?), which are listed below. > > So the questions are: > 1) how would I make an m4 function similar to this > that would handle macros? e.g. > #define theirFunc(a) myFunc(a,0) > > 2) how is it that AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED does what its name says? > > 3) Can someone help me understand the magic lines here? > I don't understand the "[@%:@define]" string, but I assume that it > magically gets transformed into "#define". I also do not understand > the trailing "1" on the m4_if. See: http://autogen.sourceforge.net/acquoting.html Try: http://autogen.sourceforge.net/conftest.html You probably want to use the "test" variation on the macro generator. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
