Re: fyi: yet another LINENO bug, this time with Bash

[akim]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:15:53PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I just installed the following patch to work around a problem that I
> just discovered with Bash 2.05 and LINENO.  I'll also send a bug
> report to the Bash maintainers.

Please install!

> Perhaps my optimism about LINENO was not well-founded....

Nah, we agreee it is not fundamental.  It is much better to have it,
period.  And then again, I shall ask again (because I don't remember
having seen an answer to my previous instance of _the_ question :):
why do we output the configure's LINENO in conftest.c, instead of,
for instance, the current input line.

Of course, one answer is that for instance when Jim write jm_PREREQ_MACROS
it produces a zillion of conftest.c which would all be labelled with
the same configure.ac input line :(