Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> This is a little unfortunate, but I just noticed it and it is a bit
> annoying. With the shell functions patches I have things like this:
>
>
> Notice the repeated occurrences of 874 and 900, which are in the
> ac_func_c_check_header function. And this could even be worse, since
> LINENO in function might even count lines from the beginning of the
> function (and in general is unportable). So my current solution is to
> pass $LINENO as an additional argument, and have _AS_ECHO_LOG use
> as_lineno if defined.
Yep - I had a suspicion that we would have to deal with LINENO in shell
functions sooner or later.
>
> Any better ideas? If no, ok? If yes, now or later?
> -_AS_ECHO([$as_me:$LINENO: $1], [AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD])])
> +_AS_ECHO([$as_me:${as_lineno:-$LINENO}: $1], [AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD])])
Now is as good a time as any. That's actually quite a slick trick, once we
make sure as_lineno is defined in the correct places. Please apply.
--
Eric Blake
