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Re: [bug#67841] [PATCH] Clarify error messages for misuse of m4_warn and
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Zack Weinberg |
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Re: [bug#67841] [PATCH] Clarify error messages for misuse of m4_warn and --help for -W. |
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Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:02:18 -0500 |
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On Fri, Dec 15, 2023, at 6:52 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Zack,
>
> Since this touches code shared between Autoconf and Automake, I'm not
> checking it in yet and I'm requesting comments from both sides of the
> fence.
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> Well, it seems good to me in principle, FWIW. I don't think this
> directly affects automake?
I doubt it, unless there's something you can put in a Makefile.am that will
cause Automake::Channels::msg to be called with a user-controlled $channel
argument. (On the autoconf side of the fence, m4_warn([channel], [message])
does exactly that, hence the patch.)
zw