Re: style

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Patrick Welche wrote:

> In the Fine Manual:
>
> @node Coding Style
> @section Coding Style
>
> In order to highlight the recommended coding style, here is a macro
> written the old way:
>
> @example
> dnl Check for EMX on OS/2.
> dnl _AC_EMXOS2
> AC_DEFUN(_AC_EMXOS2,
> ...
> and the new way:
>
> @example
> # _AC_EMXOS2
> # ----------
> # Check for EMX on OS/2.
> m4_define([_AC_EMXOS2],
>
> Why the change AC_DEFUN -> m4_define ?

it was (one of several) intentional change(s) to make it incompatible with
autoconf 2.13

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