On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Short story: [ ] are quotation characters within configure.ac files. That's one reason why many m4 macros use "test" instead for readability.
The main reason is that some older systems do not have "[" as an alias for "test". -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf