On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 08:58 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/21/2007 2:32 AM: > >> The problem is that the shell variable isn't expanded in the expected > >> output, so the check always fails. > > > > Yes, the STDOUT and STDERR arguments to AT_CHECK are expected to be > > literal, no shell expansion is done on them. > > Or use AT_CHECK_NOESCAPE, which runs shell expansions on the stdout and > stderr arguments. (Hmm, that isn't documented in the manual yet - it's > been there for some time, though). Aha, very useful. Thanks! I think a similar variant of AT_DATA would also be useful. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: <braden@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
