[bug#67841] [PATCH] Clarify error messages for misuse of m4_warn and --help for -W.

"Zack Weinberg" <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:02:18 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
Message-ID <49e34850-4608-43e2-a9cb-8a5cc474e926__6788.79045169509$1702926236$gmane$org@app.fastmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023, at 6:52 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Zack,
>
>     Since this touches code shared between Autoconf and Automake, I'm not
>     checking it in yet and I'm requesting comments from both sides of the
>     fence.
>
> Well, it seems good to me in principle, FWIW. I don't think this
> directly affects automake?

I doubt it, unless there's something you can put in a Makefile.am that will
cause Automake::Channels::msg to be called with a user-controlled $channel
argument.  (On the autoconf side of the fence, m4_warn([channel], [message])
does exactly that, hence the patch.)

zw