Ed,
On 4/21/2009 7:45 AM, Ed Hartnett wrote:
Howdy all!
I want to put a line break in the error message so that I don't have
such a long line in my configure.ac file. But if I do this:
AC_MSG_ERROR([NetCDF-4 requires HDF5, but hdf5.h cannot be found. Try using \
the --with-hdf5 option to specify location of HDF5.])
This is actually quite simple: Just wrap the line, with no trailing
back-slash, like this:
AC_MSG_ERROR([NetCDF-4 requires HDF5, but hdf5.h cannot be found. Try using
the --with-hdf5 option to specify location of HDF5.])
If your text is indented as this one is, simply start the second line in
the column in which you wish to have it start in the output (column 1 in
this example). These AC_MSG macros take whatever text you have in
Autoconf quotes, double-quote it and display it as is, including any
embedded newlines.
Regards,
John
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