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Re: dnl lines within the AC_OUTPUT([ <file list> ]) causes autoconf to b


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: dnl lines within the AC_OUTPUT([ <file list> ]) causes autoconf to bomb out.
Date: 27 Jan 2002 11:54:12 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp)

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Lane <address@hidden> writes:

Miles> Uh, at the very least, this should give a specific error
Miles> explaining that comments within the list aren't supported.  In
Miles> my opinion, not supporting comments there is a bug in autoconf.

Actually it's a backward compatible bug.  If I were to design this
today, you wouldn't have this problem.  But backward compatibility is
more important in such cases (= where the problem is not major).





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