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Re: Howto: run the C preprocessor and capture its output
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Zack Weinberg |
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Re: Howto: run the C preprocessor and capture its output |
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Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:45:57 -0700 |
On 10/19/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
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> According to Zack Weinberg on 10/18/2007 5:11 PM:
> > As far as I can tell, Autoconf provides no documented macro that
> > allows me to run the preprocessor and capture (selected portions of)
> > its output in shell variables.
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> AC_EGREP_CPP.
Really? As far as I can tell, that just lets me make a binary
decision based on the presence or absence of some pattern; the text
matching the pattern still gets bitbucketed.
zw