On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:03:36PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Where is this code? On my system, /usr/bin/m4 is a binary, not a perl
> > script. :-) I've been trying to dig to learn more, but haven't yet
> > retrieved the m4 source.
>
> In $bindir/autom4te. Somewhat misleadingly, 'm4_pattern_forbid'
> isn't part of 'm4', but from the 'm4sugar' library that's part of
> 'autoconf'.
Thanks! I've been looking through /usr/share/autoconf/* but hadn't thought
of autom4te.
> > m4_pattern_forbid([\${?target_alias\>],
> > [target alias is not what you think it is])
>
> I don't know if that'll work, since the \W split will probably
> swallow the ${.
Yep... crap. I have a sinking feeling that I'll have to do the checking
for bad patterns without autoconf's help. Probably a script called by
the cvs server on checkin or something.
Phil
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