Recently, Sam Steingold wrote: AC_DEFUN([CL_FFCALL],[dnl AC_ARG_WITH([ffcall], [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-ffcall], the idiom of using dnl to suppress the newline is common, as is the lack of indentation to prevent m4 from inserting unwanted white space. Is there any mechanism in m4 to allow indentation? For example, a label like "ind" similar to dnl that, when present, would tell m4 to discard following whitespace and allow the above to be written as: AC_DEFUN([CL_FFCALL],[dnl ind AC_ARG_WITH([ffcall], ind [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-ffcall], _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf