Hi Stepan, Aarno, Thomas, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:31:24PM CEST: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:05:28PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > if [[ "$DONE" = 0 ]] > ... > > > if [ "$DONE" = 0 ] > > > > See what's happening? > > Ralf, I guess Aarno knows what he is doing. He quotes properly and thus > the expansion is correct shell command. D'oh. I'm sorry for posting such a stupid answer in a hurry. * Thomas Dickey wrote on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:12:48PM CEST: > 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". Yes, and thank you for reminding me of this. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
