gEDA-dev: Before 1.4.0?

[Kai-Martin Knaak]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:52:25 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:

> Fix the most commonly encountered "new user" problem:
>   gsch2pcb and / or gnet_gsch2pcb.scm needs to be taught what the rules
>   for valid M4 macro names are (e.g. no '-' characters), and MUST NOT
>   pass these to M4, instead printing a loud warning. If I get time, I'll
>   look into this, but if not.. thought I'd mention the idea here in case
>   anyone else has time to do it. It could have a real benefit.

It really would. I was bitten twice by this non-feature. It made me avoid 
the m4 lib as much as possible.

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