Re: [PATCH] doc: Patterns in m4_pattern_forbid cause error, not warning

Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches,gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Message-ID <CAKPWYQ1h2qyd3VSDsMbRH74qk9h41ViLjzXx0tEBoVuuiUzdGw@mail.gmail.com>
On 22 December 2016 at 19:34, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote:
> The example text regarding a desired literal AC_DC in output
> claimed that the result would trigger a warning if one does
> not use creative quoting; but in reality, autoconf's use of
> m4_pattern_forbid to reserve the entire AC_ namespace makes
> it a hard error.  Reword the section to mention the use of
> m4_pattern_allow() as the fix, and beef up the example to
> better demonstrate the problem.

Thanks a lot, your changes are an improvement.
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