Re: macro: guidod/patch_libtool_on_darwin_zsh_overquoting.m4

[Guido Draheim]

Peter Simons schrieb:
> Guido Draheim writes:
>
>  > I'll fix that - the patch_libtool-macros are used wiiiiiiidely
>  > and shouldn't be dropped.
>
> They won't be dropped. Just obsolete. ;-)

well, they were dropped from the cvs, not just marked obsolete ;-)

>  > I wonder if it is okay to have such macros without an AX prefix
>
> Why shouldn't they have one?
AX_PATCH_ macros would confuse people to use them as freely as
others. Hmmm, btw, is there a way to AC_REQUIRE(AC_OUTPUT) ??
That would help the situation. (actually, the macros should be
rewritten to go into the config.status script... perhaps they
are obsolete for these technical reasons...)

> Peter
>
>
> P. S.: I slightly edited some of the macros you committed. For one, I
> removed the "-*- ... -*-" string at the end of the @synopsis line,
> because it screws up the formatter. If I changed something else, I
> would not recall it right now, so it cannot have been anything of
> substance. I noticed, though, that the "STATUS: ..." string appended
> to the @author line is somewhat unfortunate as well. I don't think
> that this should really be there.

hmmm, someone with a gratious emacs-mode for autoconf macros? The
two `m4` and `sh` are not the best to think of, it should be
mixture of the two (handling both `dnl` and `#` comments in
syntax highlighting). How to enable autoconf mode automatically
if not with '-*-' ?

the `status` bits - that was my personal habit for some time to
remind myself which macros are experimental and where others
are used widely. Perhaps this is a good occasion to remind of
the adoption of a @category annotation in the non-xml submission
format that could list (a) multiple categorizations and (b)
status information as `obsolete` or `experimental` markers.
Btw, the experimentals are macros that seem not be used widely
so far, e.g. for being the result of a `discussion` and put up
to gain a wider audience to have a realworld check for its
corner cases. hmmm.

-- cheers, guido