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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 05:48:34
Message-Id: 200505190148.44935.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Wednesday 18 May 2005 11:44 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > What more would people like to see explained?
3
4 might be useful to have a brief 'syntax' section ... one that covers different
5 'features' of the m4 language ...
6
7 for example, [] are used for quotes and if you try to use "", they are
8 actually passed through ...
9 AC_MSG_RESULT([eat me])
10 AC_MSG_RESULT("eat me")
11
12 the second one will actually output the quotes which is often unexpected
13 behavior for many new autotool hackers
14 -mike
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