Re: AT_DATA and AS_ECHO_N (was: Re: Warn about character literals not of length one.)

[Joel E. Denny]

Hi Eric,

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > I've been meaning to add a new macro to autotest to allow more flexibility 
> > in 
> > generating files (no trailing newline, and/or allowing shell expansions) 
> > but it 
> > will not be in time for autoconf 2.64.  Feel free to ping the autoconf 
> > list, so 
> > that I'll have a reminder email.
> 
> Is it necessary to have a new macro for omitting the trailing newline?  
> Couldn't AT_DATA detect whether a trailing newline is present in the 
> expansion and then work whatever magic is necessary to print the last line 
> correctly?
> 
> I'll try to remember to ping again later.

I was just clearing out some old emails and noticed that I never pinged 
you about this.  Have you had a chance to work on it?  I don't see 
anything in NEWS or the manual about it, so I assume you haven't.  I'm 
still interested, but I'm afraid I don't have time to help, so don't worry 
about it if you don't have time either.