On 10/13/2010 07:07 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
Miles Bader<miles@xxxxxxx> writes:
Does it matter that autoconf/general.m4, autoconf/status.m4, and
autotest/general.m4 wrap PACKAGE_BUGREPORT in< ...> in their messages?
Would look a bit ugly as<A U Thor<address@xxxxxxxxxxx>>.
Perhaps they shouldn't do such wrapping, although I suppose it's up to
the package authors, as they determine both the format of the address in
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, and the way it is used.
Hmm, just to clarify: I don't mean that the addresses shouldn't be
wrapped in<...> when presented to the user, but rather that maybe the
wrapping should be done in AC_INIT, rather than by the version-output
functions.
For the record, autoconf itself is one of those tools that blindly
assumes it can add a <> wrapper around PACKAGE_BUGREPORT. Run
'./configure --help | tail' to see what Ralf was talking about.
Now, autoconf can probably be taught to omit <> wrappers if
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT already included some; patches welcome.
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