'#####' comment handling in aclocal

2008-04-12 Thread Peter Simons
Hi, the Autoconf Macro Archive distributes m4 source codes that contain comment lines beginning with multiple '#' characters, i.e. five of them, as in the following example: http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/acx_blas.m4 It appears that aclocal strips those # ... comments while copying the

Re: '#####' comment handling in aclocal

2008-04-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter Simons wrote on Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:20:51PM CEST: It appears that aclocal strips those # ... comments while copying the macros into the generated aclocal.m4 file. I was wondering whether this behavior is intentional and, assuming that it is, what the rationale

Re: Report to stdout like Linux kernel compilation does

2008-04-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: For Emacs, all I know was that M-x compile did all that I ever needed. But I'm sure it can be extended for unusual compiler output as well. For emacs use M-x compile to build. The default compile command is make but may be modified as desired. To walk through every