Re: autoconf 2.61: AC_DEFINE variable with parenthesis

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello Andrey,

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:40:08PM +0200, Andrey Simonenko wrote:
> > AC_DEFINE([DEF(x)], [somevalue], [A macro to do a woo.])
>             ^^^^^^^^
> As I understand this trick will not be supported in next versions
> of autoconf, so I reorganize logic of my .h files and now only simple
> identifiers (letters, digits and underline) are used [...]

indeed, it seems that the defines without parameters are sufficient
to transfer the findigs of configure.  If you have a use case which
shows that the (now deprecated) feature might be actually useful, we
would be glad to hear about it.

Thanks,
        Stepan