Re: BUGS

[Kevin Ryde]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   echo "## ----------------- ##" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
>   echo "## Cache variables.  ##" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
>   echo "## ----------------- ##" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
> 
> autoconf saw nothing because it's in a f*g ``comment''.  People who
> are against autoconf scanning in comments are definitely asking for
> trouble, and in addition, push some more on the other people.

Maybe a compromise would be to only ignore when the # is at the start
of the line.  I guess it's very difficult to be sure a # in the middle
is a comment, what with $# or quoting etc.