Re: awk for config headers

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:22:14AM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> writes:
> > 
> > In the patch below, I've not changed the XFAILing test `Define a
> > newline' as that would clash with Eric's proposed patch; likewise a
> > manual change is still missing.
> 
> How about this?  It embodies the ideas from my earlier proposal[1], but 
> without 
> regex overhead, and with m4_warn instead of m4_fatal.  I haven't committed it 
> yet...

FWIW, I haven't looked at the patch in detail, but it's ok with me
if we warn about literal newlines, even if we don't for non-literal
ones (passed through a shell variable with AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED), as
long as we don't advertise this safeguard.  So please go ahead.

[...]
> * THANKS: Update.

What changed in THANKS?

Cheers,
Ralf