[BRLTTY] Building with Autoconf 2.62
Stepan Kasal
skasal at redhat.com
Wed Sep 24 04:35:07 EDT 2008
Hello Dave,
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:09:58PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Stepan Kasal on 2008/09/12 at 21:14 +0200]
> >The NEWS file explains that the macro m4_text_wrap was first
> >documented in 2.62, after some ``bug fixes or semantic changes.''
>
> That's what I get for trying to figure things out without using the
> documentation. :-)
well, when you was figuring out, the documentation did not exist. ;-)
At that time, using the undocumented m4_text_wrap was the only way.
> >Then I realized that the above behaviour was a consequence of the
> >fact that the parameter PREFIX1 was the long unexpanded string
> >containing "m4_format([%-8s " etc.
> >Later on, macro brltty_tables_text has been expanded again, so the
> >cause of the problem was somewhat masked.
>
> Thank you for figuring that out. I'm sure it'd have taken me qutie
> some time to do the same.
Well, as you observed, it took me some time as well. You saw this
patch was not the first iteration...
> Again, thank you. I really do appreciate your help.
It's comfortable to hear that. :-)
Stepan
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