Stepan Kasal <kasal@xxxxxx> writes: > + ac_define_dir=`eval echo "\"[$]$2\""` > + ac_define_dir=`eval echo "\"[$]ac_define_dir\""` In this case the quotes are not necessary because assignments are not word splitted. But it can be further simplified: eval ac_define_dir=\"[$]$2\" eval ac_define_dir=\"[$]ac_define_dir\" Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf