On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 00:25 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Joao, > Hi Ralph, > a small side point regarding M4 quotation: instead of > > * Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote on Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:18:08PM CEST: > > AC_CHECK_HEADER(xpath.h,,AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find headers for libxml2])) > > it's better to write this: > > AC_CHECK_HEADER(xpath.h,,[AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find headers for libxml2])]) > Is this something I could/should do globally ??? for example, I also have these: - AC_CHECK_HEADERS(unistd.h sys/socket.h) - AC_CHECK_FUNCS(socket htons) - AC_CHECK_LIB(xml2,xmlParseDoc,,AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot link to libxml2])) could/should I quote it all ? I'm quite used to quoting in Perl... is this somewhat similar ? jmf > (quoting the first argument of AC_CHECK_HEADER would be prudent, too). > > It was very painful before the last Autoconf release to fix AC_MSG_ERROR > to not rely on this (it cannot because there is loads of old macro code > that has this underquotation, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't advise > against it for new code). > > Cheers, > Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
