[adding autoconf-patches; replies can drop autoconf]
According to adso 0000 on 1/8/2010 5:48 AM:
> maybe i am saying some none sense but....
> Have you check to don't leave any space between the name of the macro and
> their arguments.
> for example:
> "AS_IF (" fails for me but
> "AS_IF(" it works.
Correct. This is an artifact of m4's parsing rules, and the autoconf
manual is explicit about this fact, in the second paragraph of:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Autoconf-Language
Actually, that paragraph would work better with an explicit example, so
I'm considering adding this patch. It is currently incomplete: do you
have a preferred name that you would like to be credited as in the THANKS
and ChangeLog entry?
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx
From e468c08f9e3b3ed27f9e5c6d9fb4f92c7a931982 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 06:52:58 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] WIP: Clarify language handling of opening parenthesis.
FIXME - waiting for feedback on attribution name
* doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Give an example of
improper argument passing.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by adso_0000.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx>
---
ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++
doc/autoconf.texi | 9 ++++++++-
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2765bda..0699db0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2010-01-08 Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx>
+
+ Clarify language handling of opening parenthesis.
+ * doc/autoconf.texi (Autoconf Language): Give an example of
+ improper argument passing.
+ * THANKS: Update.
+ Reported by adso_0000.
+
2010-01-05 Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx>
Improve release automation.
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index cc19284..41d0443 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -1132,7 +1132,14 @@ Autoconf Language
quotation.
When calling macros that take arguments, there must not be any white
-space between the macro name and the open parenthesis. Arguments should
+space between the macro name and the open parenthesis.
+
+@example
+AC_INIT ([oops], [1.0]) # incorrect
+AC_INIT([hello], [1,0]) # good
+@end example
+
+Arguments should
be enclosed within the quote characters @samp{[} and @samp{]}, and be
separated by commas. Any leading blanks or newlines in arguments are ignored,
unless they are quoted. You should always quote an argument that
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