* William Pursell wrote on Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:48:11AM CET: > > 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: No, but you can also take advantages of the fact that leading (but not trailing!) whitespace in a macro argument is dropped, and that often, leading whitespace does not matter for further computation. So nothing prevents you from writing: AC_DEFUN([CL_FFCALL], [AC_ARG_WITH([ffcall], [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-ffcall], ...)])]) Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf