Re: Moving diversions into M4sugar

[Raja R Harinath]

Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
> On Oct 27, 2000, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
> Alexandre> On Oct 26, 2000, <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > We're talking about the same thing then :)
> 
> Ok, then.  But I'd still like to keep AC_DIVERT, AC_DIVERT_PUSH and
> _POP as aliases.  I recall having seen code that uses them explicitly,
> dangerous as this may be, and I see no reason to hide these mechanisms
> from autoconf users, which is in effect what we do by not providing
> such macros in autoconf's interface.

It is used in 'glib' and 'gtk+' to expand some variables before
showing the help.  There's some code that sets some default debugging
--enables depending on whether the version minor is odd or even.

- Hari
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