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Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:44:31 +0300

> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:19:15 +0200
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> My wild guess is that this strange behaviour of makeinfo in C is a
> result of the order of expansion that happens by chance, and is not 
> intended.

No, it's intended.

> In my opinion it is much better to have something consistent, and
> leaving the end of line out is also better in my opinion, otherwise it
> is not possible to have a macro expansion within a line.

If this causes existing uses to break in subtle ways, then I disagree,
but I've been unable to convince you in the past.



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