>> > Given these limitations, can anyone suggest a better mechanism for >> > achieving this objective? >> >> Use esyscmd to interpolate the output of the command at configure creation >> time. > > But does that really offer any advantage over using a shell script to do the > same thing? It still performs the substitution at the time when configure is > generated, rather than when it is run. Sorry Andreas, I misunderstood this on first reading. Of course it will be cleaner than adding an extra file, and non-standard step, into the autoconf generation process for configure. Thanks for the tip; now, if I can just figure out the correct m4 quoting... Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
