On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 05:48:02PM -0400, Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote:
> > All I can say is that autoconf surely probes the limits of m4 behavior > > in every regard. So any incompatibility whatsoever is likely to be a > > problem. --happy hacking, karl. > > I plan on byte-for-byte compatibility with GNU m4 1.4.19. I'd rather you aim for byte-for-byte compatibility with the just-released 1.4.20 instead. > It seems to > work that way for now, but I'd like any bug reports. I also plan to > try it more extensively myself with autotools projects soon, but I > figured that I'd release it as soon as possible. I will test to see how it fares against my m4 scripts. I suspect it won't be long before I find an incompatibility... -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. Virtualization: qemu.org | libguestfs.org
