Hello, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:58:00PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:46:37AM CEST: > > As a workaround you could try to add _three_ pairs of brackets: > > No. This advice is not only wrong, but it is also very bad advice. > Please do not teach users to blindly add brackets until some code > "appears" to work. Such behavior ends up in huge amounts of legacy code > that stops to work when bugs are eventually fixed in Autoconf. I agree with you, Ralf. Very nicely explained. I regret that I posted the bad advice. > Jerry, for now just don't use AS_HELP_STRING at all, but pass a > preformatted string as second argument to AC_ARG_ENABLE: > > AC_ARG_ENABLE([baz], > [ --with-wx=opt1,opt2 specify 2 options separated by comma])]) > > This works, and will continue to work. Yes, this is the right answer. Have a nice day, Stepan _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf