Re: Nesting m4 macros

[Stefano Lattarini]

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On Monday 06 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > Have you read any tutorial about the autotools?  If not, I
> > > > suggest this: <http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html>,
> > > > which I find it very clear, and which helped me a lot in the
> > > > past.
> > > 
> > > This is a very good suggestion indeed.
> > 
> > Maybe we should add a link to it in the autotools manual, to
> > avoid the poor newbies the pain of trying to learn autoconf and
> > automake from scratch from their reference manual.
> 
> We do so already, in the "Autotools Introduction" node.
Yes, in the automake manual, but not in the autoconf manual, nor in 
the autoconf/automake home pages.  Adding the link in those places
too might make a big difference IMHO, especially for newcomers.

Regards,
   Stefano