Merge maint into master

* upstream/maint:
  fix generated comments
  traces: provide a means to get short m4 traces
  traces: show the full m4 invocation

data/skeletons/bison.m4

@@ -19,6 +19,27 @@
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 
+
+# m4_gsub(STRING, RE1, SUBST1, RE2, SUBST2, ...)
+# ----------------------------------------------
+# m4 equivalent of
+#
+#   $_ = STRING;
+#   s/RE1/SUBST1/g;
+#   s/RE2/SUBST2/g;
+#   ...
+#
+# Really similar to m4_bpatsubsts, but behaves properly with quotes.
+# See m4.at's "Generating Comments".  Super inelegant, but so far, I
+# did not find any better solution.
+m4_define([b4_gsub],
+[m4_bpatsubst(m4_bpatsubst(m4_bpatsubst([[[[$1]]]],
+                                        [$2], [$3]),
+                           [$4], [$5]),
+              [$6], [$7])])
+
+
+
 ## ---------------- ##
 ## Identification.  ##
 ## ---------------- ##

data/skeletons/c-like.m4

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
+
 # _b4_comment(TEXT, OPEN, CONTINUE, END)
 # --------------------------------------
 # Put TEXT in comment.  Avoid trailing spaces: don't indent empty lines.
@@ -27,9 +28,10 @@
 #
 # Prefix all the output lines with PREFIX.
 m4_define([_b4_comment],
-[$2[]m4_bpatsubsts(m4_expand([$1]),
-                   [[*]/], [*\\/],
-                   [/[*]], [/\\*], [
+[$2[]b4_gsub(m4_expand([$1]),
+            [[*]/], [*\\/],
+            [/[*]], [/\\*],
+            [
 \(.\)], [
 $3\1])$4])
 

data/skeletons/traceon.m4

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+dnl GNU M4 treats -dV in a position-independent manner.
+m4_debugmode(V)m4_traceon()dnl