Re: gEDA-user: Conflict with m4 macro name?

[bumpelo@comcast.net]

Probably the m4 manual. I believe that the "-" was considered a subtract operation and the operands weren't good. Of course this depends on how gsch2pcb uses m4; I wouldn't think the filename should matter, but I know nothing about the internals of gsch2pcb.


> Hello
> 
> I named my file symbol SUBD_MALE_LAY-25_tbl and during gsch2pcb I got a
> message:
> stdin:110: m4: Bad expression in eval: /2
> and gsch2pcb hanged.
> 
> I tried to rename it to subd_male_25_tbl and now gsch2pcb works fine.
> 
> What are the exact rules to prevent such conflicts?
> 
> Cl<