From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9039 invoked from network); 31 May 2001 14:24:57 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 May 2001 14:24:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 24631 invoked by alias); 31 May 2001 14:24:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 14616 Received: (qmail 24620 invoked from network); 31 May 2001 14:24:46 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:24:42 -0400 From: Clint Adams To: Oliver Kiddle Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: zsh and autoconf-2.50 Message-ID: <20010531102442.A13583@dman.com> References: <20010530144809.E47866@lizzy.bugworks.com> <010530150208.ZM3863@candle.brasslantern.com> <20010530184016.B3618@dman.com> <010530170846.ZM4077@candle.brasslantern.com> <20010531094055.A12930@dman.com> <3B164CF0.1C58D211@u.genie.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B164CF0.1C58D211@u.genie.co.uk>; from opk@u.genie.co.uk on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:53:52PM +0100 > Is it using the --prefix-builtins (-P) option to m4 for this then? If > so, that sounds quite sensible because it can be quite annoying in m4 > having to remember to quote any builtins. Anyway, that sounds like it > will be a fairly trivial fix to configure.in when we come to switch to > autoconf 2.5. No, this is what it does: ## ------------------------------- ## ## 1. Simulate --prefix-builtins. ## ## ------------------------------- ## # m4_define # m4_defn # m4_undefine define([m4_define], defn([define])) define([m4_defn], defn([defn])) define([m4_undefine], defn([undefine])) m4_undefine([define]) m4_undefine([defn]) m4_undefine([undefine]) > Why out of interest? What would autoconf 2.5 have it replaced by then? configure.ac is the new canonical name. Something about "configure.in" being too vague, I think.