Re: Suggestion for improving an error message

Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for autoconf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Message-ID <CAOnWdoir2+TzKWvZQ47FB5MAixg_1dqJe5334iSqSAk4dy=8GA@mail.gmail.com> 
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 22:05, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion. Although I didn't go to the trouble of
> writing code to generate the multiline diagnostic you suggested, it's
> easy to change "possibly undefined macro" (which doesn't cover the
> situation you mentioned) to the slightly less confusing "undefined or
> overquoted macro". Since the diagnostic can be caused by misspelled
> macro names, which do occur, I thought it wise to retain a mention of
> that in the diagnostic. I installed the attached patch.


That's great, thanks!

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