Re: autoconf 2.61: AC_DEFINE variable with parenthesis

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:40:33PM CET:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:15:17PM +0200, Andrey Simonenko wrote:
> > For example macro with arguments, depending on configure tests
> > its value can be different.  In config.h.in there can be "#undef DEF"
> > (written by hands or generated by autoheader) and configure can
> > change this line to "#define DEF(x) somevalue", where "somevalue"
> > can or can't use x.
> 
> yes, but it seems that in practice it is nicer to encode the finding
> into several defined values (HAVE_FOO, HAVE_BROKEN_THAT, ...), and
> then define the parametrized macro in a separate hader file:

I disagree.  Putting things in two separate files which belong together
isn't "nice and clean" from an application point of view.  It's coding
around a restriction that Autoconf imposes upon the user (and has failed
so far to document very explicitly).

Cheers,
Ralf