Re: m4_shift does not work

[akim]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:01:42PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:07:21PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:59:53PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > In autoconf-2.13, shift was explicitly undefined in acgeneral.m4.
> > > In 2.50 it seems to be renamed to m4_shift, and there is also
> > > m4_shiftn in m4sh.m4.  However, I can't seem to be able to use
> > > either of these macros myself:
> > 
> > Quote your definition body.
> 
> Oops.  Thanks, it works fine now.  However, I now have a similar
> problem with m4_ifelse and m4_translit etc.:
> 
> AC_DEFUN([AC_CONFIG_LIBCONFIG_IN],[# create a custom library-config file 
> ($1-config)
> L=`echo m4_ifelse($1, , $PACKAGE, $1)`
> 
> I do quote the definition body here, but autoconf gives the error:
> 
> configure:2705: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_ifelse
> 
> (the macro is not expanded, but plain `ifelse' is).

s/m4_ifelse/m4_if/.

I'll answer your other question later :)  Gotta sleep.