Re: breaking long AC_CHECK_FUNCS lines?

[Eric Sunshine]

Hello,

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:52:13 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I found the following in kaffe's configure.in:
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS([dnl
> strerror hstrerror dnl
> ])
> This appears to no longer work with autoconf 2.53; it causes
> seriously confused output.  Replacing this idiom with the single-line idiom
> seems to work better, but is hard to read.  What's the
> proper way to break lines in that situation?

Using backslashes works.  For instance:

AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ \
sterror floor \
putenv strchr \
strcasecmp \
])

-- ES