Re: AT_DATA and AS_ECHO_N

[Eric Blake]

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According to Joel E. Denny on 12/14/2009 2:53 PM:
>>> I've been meaning to add a new macro to autotest to allow more flexibility 
>>> in 
>>> generating files (no trailing newline, and/or allowing shell expansions) 
>>> but it 
>>> will not be in time for autoconf 2.64.  Feel free to ping the autoconf 
>>> list, so 
>>> that I'll have a reminder email.
>> Is it necessary to have a new macro for omitting the trailing newline?  
>> Couldn't AT_DATA detect whether a trailing newline is present in the 
>> expansion and then work whatever magic is necessary to print the last line 
>> correctly?
>>
>> I'll try to remember to ping again later.
> 
> I was just clearing out some old emails and noticed that I never pinged 
> you about this.  Have you had a chance to work on it?  I don't see 
> anything in NEWS or the manual about it, so I assume you haven't.  I'm 
> still interested, but I'm afraid I don't have time to help, so don't worry 
> about it if you don't have time either.

Sorry, this still hasn't percolated to the top of my list (yes, I also
have a backlog of old emails).  But thanks for another ping.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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