NightStrike <nightstrike@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 3/8/08, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> NightStrike <nightstrike@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > If I do this: >> > >> > AC_CHECK_FUNC( >> > [chokeme], >> > [], >> > [] >> > ) >> >> The else part is not empty, it consists of explicit whitespace. When >> collecting arguments only unquoted leading whitespace is skipped by m4, >> trailing whitespace (quoted or not) is preserved. You need to put the >> closing paren immediatly after the closing quote of the argument. > > Is that something I should always do? I've been consistently putting > the closing paren on its on line. Is that a "never"? You can instead use dnl to ignore the trailing whitespace, provided the closing paren is in column 1. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
