Re: AC_INIT bug-address question

[Eric Blake]

On 10/13/2010 07:07 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
> Miles Bader<address@hidden>  writes:
> > > Does it matter that autoconf/general.m4, autoconf/status.m4, and
> > > autotest/general.m4 wrap PACKAGE_BUGREPORT in<  ...>  in their messages?
> > > Would look a bit ugly as<A U Thor<address@hidden>>.
> >
> > Perhaps they shouldn't do such wrapping, although I suppose it's up to
> > the package authors, as they determine both the format of the address in
> > PACKAGE_BUGREPORT, and the way it is used.
>
> Hmm, just to clarify:  I don't mean that the addresses shouldn't be
> wrapped in<...>  when presented to the user, but rather that maybe the
> wrapping should be done in AC_INIT, rather than by the version-output
> functions.

For the record, autoconf itself is one of those tools that blindly 
assumes it can add a <> wrapper around PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.  Run 
'./configure --help | tail' to see what Ralf was talking about.

Now, autoconf can probably be taught to omit <> wrappers if 
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT already included some; patches welcome.

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