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Re: libstdc++ configure time


Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

|> Taking AC_DEFINE for example because it is small,
|> 
|> define(ACQS, [patsubst($1, ['], ['\''])])
|> define(AC_DEFINE,
|> [echo '#define $1 ifelse($#, 2, ACQS($2), $#, 3, ACQS($2), 1)' >> confdefs.h
|> ])
|> 
|> Your definition, for example would fail for
|> 
|> AC_DEFINE(TICK, '\'')
|> 
|> which seems like a perfectly legitimate thing to want to do.

This is still not enough for

AC_DEFINE(FOOBAR, '\n')

because on some systems echo interprets backslash sequences.

Andreas.

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