Hello Fabien, * Fabien Chêne wrote on Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 10:37:42PM CEST: > > cat > foo.jam << EOF > echo $(FOO) ; dnl here is the problem > EOF Try echo 'echo $(FOO)' > foo.jam or: cat >foo.jam <<'EOF' echo $(FOO) EOF (minus the indentation). If the word after '<<' is quoted with single-, double-quote, or a backslash, the here document is not expanded by parameter expansion and command substitution. This is a purely shell issue (which is rare with Autoconf, due to the common issues with M4 quoting). Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf