[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#635343: Fw: Re: [Help-autogen] How to substitute prog-name in libopts `detail = <<- _END_DETAIL' text?

[Regid Ichira]

--- On Tue, 7/26/11, Bruce Korb <bkorb at gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Bruce Korb <bkorb at gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: [Help-autogen] How to substitute prog-name in libopts `detail = <<- _END_DETAIL' text?
> To: "Regid Ichira" <regid23 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: help-autogen at gnu.org, "Harlan Stenn" <harlan.stenn at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 2:14 PM
> Hi Regid,
> 
> definition files assign string values or nested values to
> names, period.
> There is no template substitution that happens there. 
> Since the macro
> markers are defined by the template itself, what is to say
> that "[=" and
> "=]" are the right markers anyway?  They are
> *template* *specific* markers.
> 
> In short:
> 
> On 07/25/11 18:42, Regid Ichira wrote:
> > detail =<<-  _END_DETAIL
> >          The
> >          [= prog-name =]
> >          utility program is
> used to query NTP servers which
> >          implement the
> standard NTP mode 6 control message formats defined
> > --
> >
> >    Is there a way to get ntpq, instead of [=
> prog-name =],
> 
> No.  (Without post-processing the generated code, but
> I'd suggest not going there.)
>