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Re: autoconf 2.53: trivial whitespace fix.


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: autoconf 2.53: trivial whitespace fix.
Date: 20 May 2002 22:22:23 +0200
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>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Bostic <address@hidden> writes:

Keith> The AH_CHECK_HEADERS_DIRENT macro: splits its comment over two
Keith> lines:

They all do.

Keith>     /* Define to 1 if you have the <dirent.h> header file, and
Keith> it defines `DIR'.  */ #define HAVE_DIRENT_H 1

Keith> unlike the rest of the comments, 

Unlike the rest of the comments your configure.ac generates.  It is
automatically wrapped, and on purpose: it is required for generated
comments (just play with
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([this_function_has_a_f_ing_long_name])).

Keith> which confused a tool we have that post-processes the config.h
Keith> file.  I realize that we should not have depended on this
Keith> behavior, 

Indeed :)

Keith> but it seems reasonable to be consistent, where possible.

We are consistent: lines are wrapped where needed :)






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