On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:46, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Eric > The latest version of autoconf depends on m4 1.4.6 or greater, because > m4 1.4.5 has bugs in translit that newer autoconf would trigger > (autoconf 2.59 did not trigger those bugs, so using stock tools on your > distro should still be okay). If you are going to upgrade to newer > autoconf, you also need to upgrade m4. Thanks I'll bear that in mind. > You should use m4_translit instead of translit, and you want the > expansion of your temporary macro 'uppercase' to occur prior to calling > AC_DEFINE, rather than after. You ended up transliterating " to ", > because you used the wrong quoting. You also want to ensure that the > result of the transliteration is not itself treated as a macro, hence > the double-quoting. Also, treating uppercase as a temporary macro > implies using pushdef/popdef rather than define. Try this instead > (although I haven't tested it): > > AC_DEFUN([LALSUITE_TEST],[ > m4_pushdef([uppercase],translit([[$1]],[a-z],[A-Z])) > AC_DEFINE([HAVE_LIB]uppercase, [1], [Define if ...]) > m4_popdef([uppercase]) > ]) Thanks a lot Eric, that does the trick! Cheers Adam _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
