Re: Evaluating arithmetic expressions with macros (eval)

Peter Hull <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:33:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 15:56, Sébastien Hinderer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> So according to that, I expected that autoconf would call m4 with the -P
> option and looked at my /usr/bin/autoconf script but it does not seem to
> contain any occurrence of -P. But perhaps that appears in a sourced file
> or so.
You're right! Possibly it is done by 'lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4' in the
source code. I'll leave it to someone who knows what they're talking
about to reply!
Pete

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