It would be very nice to have a command similar to AT_CHECK which _would_ shell-expand its first argument for display. For example, in for flag in '' -foo '-bar opt' do AT_CHECK([$LIBTOOL --mode=compile $CC $flag ...], ...) done it would be useful to see the value of $flag. I don't know if changing the behavior of AT_CHECK might break things, so I'd suggest another macro which maybe can share much of the implementation. Note that the execution of the command line need not change in any way. Cheers, Ralf, still too afraid of m4 fu to be able to hack up a patch _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf