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Re: lynx-dev ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP
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Re: lynx-dev ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP |
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Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:45:06 -0700 (MST) |
In a recent note, address@hidden said:
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:28:41 -0500 (EST)
>
> They can't (it won't work except as a patch to the base autoconf stuff).
>
Yah, I see, now that I've looked at one of them.
>
> You could add dummy macros but it won't work correctly since the quoting
> of the help-messages is a little different. (The resulting, patched
Yah, I tried that; it didn't work.
>
> For the longer term; yesterday the fellow who's acting as the autoconf
> maintainer said that "soon" he's going to make available snapshots of
> his upcoming 2.13 version. I'll nag him about it if he's not used any
> of my fixes...
>
We can only hope.
I feel like I just pulled the thread that was holding everything
together. I'm afraid to delve too deeply into autoconf. I think
I'll just comment out everything that doesn't work for the time
being, and post a patch to configure.in when I have one.
Thanks again,
gil
Re: lynx-dev ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP, dickey, 1998/10/25