Paolo Bonzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Thanks, that looks better, except it doesn't have any >> changes to the documentation or to NEWS. Can you please >> write those as well? > > Why should matters be complicated this way? Stepan showed it does not > work with autoheader. How many packages are there that use this kind > of quoted argument, and not use autoheader? Can't we instead *warn* > on the problem and let the user fix their code?
I'm not opposed to having Autoconf warn about the problem if it detects it, but that would be more work, no? I would think that important thing is to document the revised behavior -- otherwise the users won't know how to fix their code, because they won't know what the problem is.
