Re: autoconf 2.61: AC_DEFINE variable with parenthesis

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:35:37AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Andrey Simonenko <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > AC_DEFINE([DEF(x)], [somevalue])
> 
> Ouch!  That's not supported, and I'm surprised you got it to work as
> well as it did.

status.m4 contains a code which supports this, so until now I had no
idea that this may be deprecated.  I think this feature was available
since the beginning of Autoconf.

I understand that there is no real reason to use this feature, but
OTOH, when we remove it we'll again hear cries that "the Autotools
people are never able to produce a backward compatible release".

Shouldn't we rather maintain the feature?

Have a nice day,
        Stepan