Am Die, 2002-02-05 um 09.45 schrieb Akim Demaille: > >>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ralf> Example: Why should AC_INIT provide an email address or > Ralf> PACKAGE_BUGREPORT? If a user really wants one, let him put a > Ralf> AC_PACKAGE_ADDRESS([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or similar into his > Ralf> configure.ac. > > Akim> No, I've always been in favor of using m4_define, because there > Akim> is no point in introducing many macros for a single job > Akim> (defining). But I've told that that's ``ugly hacks''. > > Err ``I've _been_ told'', sorry. Probably, I said that.
The problem I have with regard to m4_define() is that it is not autoupdate-able, or at least very difficult to apply autoupdate, AFAICT. Having specialized macros AC_SOMEMACRO it become much easier to automatically convert configure.acs and aclocal/*.m4s. That's why I am against using m4_define on the user-side of autoconf. Ralf
