On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:02:04 -0500, Bob Lockie wrote: > On 12/12/03 04:58 Andreas Schwab spoke thusly<br> > > Bob Lockie <bjlockie@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>I want to have the following but having the text AH_TEMPLATE is picked up > >>by autoheader and a blank #undef is created. > >>AC_CHECK_FILE( [acconfig.h], AC_MSG_ERROR( [the config template is > >>created by the AH_TEMPLATE commands in configure.in|ac so delete > >>acconfig.h] ), ) > > Try enclosing the second argument of AC_CHECK_FILE in []. Underquoted > > arguments are the topmost source of errors. > Like that? > AC_CHECK_FILE( [acconfig.h], [AC_MSG_ERROR( [the config template is > created by the AH_TEMPLATE commands in configure.in|ac so delete > acconfig.h] )], ) > It didn't work. You can also prevent m4 from recognizing macros by inserting arbitrary quotes into the names. For instance AH_TEM[]PLATE or AH_T[EMP]LATE. -- ES