Autoscan fails cryptically on our code

[Richard Brooksby]

Following the instructions in the Goat Book at <http:// 
sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_241.html#SEC241> I ran  
"autoscan" on our source tree, which is visible at <http:// 
www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/master/code/>.  It said:

> address@hidden autoscan -v
> autoscan: srcdir = .
> autoscan: cannot open <mpm.h: No such file or directory
> address@hidden

The file "mpm.h" is in the current directory.

The angle bracket is suspicious.

I think autoscan may be confused by the tagging conventions used for  
cross-references within the sources.  We have many comments which  
look like this:

> * .source: See .design also.  PoolStruct and PoolClassStruct, the
> * central types for this module, are defined in <code/mpmst.h>, the
> * corresponding abstract types in <code/mpmtypes.h>.  Declarations and
> * prototypes are in <code/mpm.h>.  Several functions have macro  
> versions
> * defined in <code/mpm.h>.  */

These cross-references look like arguments to #include and may be  
confusing autoscan.  But surely autoscan is stripping comments before  
doing anything else, isn't it?

I'm running on Mac OS X 10.4.6 and autoscan --version reports  
"autoscan (GNU Autoconf) 2.59".  This copy of autoscan came with Mac  
OS X.

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