Re: autoconf weirdness

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 10:53:01 +1000
Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:

> It only detected one mismatched quote:
> 
> # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables.
> # Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded.
> 
> but that is inside a comment, so I don't think it counts...

I've got an impression that "#" might be not the comment character
at that point ... 

$cat a.m4 
changecom('dnl','
')
dnl hello
hello
# hello

$m4 a.m4 

hello
# hello




Not that I know much about m4.


regards,
	junichi


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