Re: [PATCH] Reimplement AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME with shell functions.

[Eric Blake]

On 07/29/2010 05:15 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hello autoconfers.
> 
> There is any reason why the AS_BASENAME and AS_DIRNAME macros don't 
> have associated as_fn_* shells functions, like e.g. AS_MKDIR_P or 
> AS_UNSET do?  If there is no such reason, you might find the attached 
> patch useful.

The biggest reason is that I'd _really_ like to implement conditional
support for XSI usage, so that on decent shells, we can perform
dirname/basename without forking via ${a%/*} style manipulations, and
where we no longer chop trailing newlines.  But to do that, we need a
new interface:

AS_BASENAME_VAR([varname], [name-to-chop])

We tried deprecating AS_BASENAME in the past (and at one point, it was
even undocumented; we had to reinstate the documentation because people
use it) because it does not lend itself well to the faster implementation.

And once you have the support for XSI detection and a working
AS_BASENAME_VAR function, we would then rewrite AS_BASENAME to something
like:

m4_define([AS_BASENAME],
[AS_BASENAME_VAR([as_name], [$1]); AS_ECHO([$as_name])])

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