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Re: comma separated lists
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Peter Eisentraut |
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Re: comma separated lists |
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Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:03:33 +0100 (CET) |
Bruno Haible writes:
> AC_CHECK_HEADERS wants a whitespace separated list.
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS wants a whitespace separated list.
> AC_CHECK_DECLS wants a comma separated list.
> AC_LIBSOURCES wants a comma separated list.
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> Why?!
The advantage of comma-separated lists are that they can be processed
naturally as lists in m4, whereas the whitespace-separated lists are just
passed through as a blob of data, usually to shell loop. Eventually, all
macros will use the comma style.
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