Paul Eggert wrote:
Andrey Simonenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AC_DEFINE([DEF(x)], [somevalue])
Ouch! That's not supported, and I'm surprised you got it to work as
well as it did.
It's not really so surprising. Until you yourself rewrote it ten days
ago (on Dec. 15), _AC_FC_WRAPPERS depended upon this capability, which
means that it has worked in autoconf for over six years now. (In fact,
I believe I'm the one who originally patched autoconf to support macro
arguments in AC_DEFINE.)
And _AC_FC_WRAPPERS is a perfect example of why AC_DEFINE should
continue to support macros with arguments: your rewritten version
requires 24 times as much config.h code as the previous version. Some
tasks are simply much easier with macro arguments, and since it produces
a #define it is somewhat unnatural *not* to support arguments in AC_DEFINE.
My vote would be to keep this support, document it officially if
necessary, and revert AC_FC_WRAPPERS to the previous 2-line config.h code.
Steven
