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Re: value of a macro parameter and position of )
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: value of a macro parameter and position of ) |
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Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:41:11 +0100 |
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Vincent Torri <address@hidden> writes:
> Hey,
>
> i've written a macro with 2 parameters. Suppose that the macro name is
> FOO, if I use it like that in the configure.ac file:
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> FOO([var1]
> ["yes"]
> )
Did you mean to write comma after [var1]? Without it there is only one
argument.
> the value of the 2nd parameter in the macro is not yes, but yes followed
> by a new line
See node Macro Arguments in the m4 documentation: only leading unquoted
whitespace is skipped when collecting macro arguments. All other
whitespace will become part of the argument.
Andreas.
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