Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:29:31 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Craig Boston <craig@olyun.gank.org> Cc: smkelly@freebsd.org Subject: Re: m4 is broken -- can't rename builtins (patch in PR) Message-ID: <20040816142931.GA18527@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20040813033048.GA33060@nowhere> References: <20040813033048.GA33060@nowhere>
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:30:48PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > Hi -hackers: > > Just wondering if I could get a committer's attention to look at > bin/59883. It seems that m4 has been broken for quite some time -- at > least in the ability to rename builtin macros -- defn() doesn't work > correctly anymore. I've been using the simple patch in the PR locally > for the last several months and have yet to run into any problems with > it. I guess not many people use the bundled m4 for anything much more > complicated than making sendmail.cf files ;) > > I'm not sure who is the active maintainer for m4 is, or even if there is > one. CC: tjr & smkelly as they are the last couple people to touch the > code in a while. I hope I'm sending this to the right place :) I've just committed a temporary fix for this to -CURRENT, and will MFC it in about a week. I'll consider merging in the better (but more involved) OpenBSD fix and any other useful changes they've made, but this will have to wait until after 5.3-R. Thanks for bringing the problem to my attention. Tim
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