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Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations


From: Joel E. Denny
Subject: Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:42:05 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote:

> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> 
> > > I find it rarely pays to play the guessing game of "surely the user will 
> > > never do *this*".  Moreover, I'm betting that the user will never guess 
> > > that this bizarre string is actually special to autotest.
> > 
> > Magic line-noise strings don't just affect autotest, but all m4sugar-based 
> > languages, including autoconf itself.
> > 
> > >  At the very 
> > > least, can this new limitation be mentioned in the manual?  Or did I miss 
> > > it?
> > 
> > So yes, it would probably be worth adding a blurb in the m4sugar 
> documentation 
> 
> Like so:

Thanks for doing all this.




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