Hi Tho,as On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:50:13PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > AC_ARG_WITH([module], > dnl TODO. Want to use commas instead of exclamation marks, but aclocal doesn't > dnl like that. TODO. Squared brackets are not being shown in help output. > AS_HELP_STRING([--with-module-ID=PATH!PRIORITY!SHARE[!COMMAND LINE]], > [add a module])) For example like this (untested): AC_ARG_WITH([module], [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-module-ID=PATH,PRIORITY,SHARE[[,COMMAND LINE]]], [add a module])]) If you need non-nested brackets, you can still use quadrigraphs, see 'info Autoconf Quadrigraphs'. > [rm -f modules.h modules-1.h modules.S modules-files && > for m in $( > set | > grep ^with_module_ | This breaks if the user of your configure script does some_var="let's fool configure: with_module_foo=bar" export some_var ./configure > { IFS== && > while read m r; do > echo $m > done > } > ) > do > eval v=\$$m && > m=$(expr $m : with_module_\\\(.\*\\\)) && > echo $m,"$v" | > { IFS=, && > read m f p s c && This code does not necessarily execute in a subshell, so you need to save and restore IFS here, for example like this: save_IFS=$IFS && IFS=, && read m f p s c && IFS=$save_IFS && > done && > cat >> modules.h <<EOS && > struct module modules[] = { This pair of brackets looks underquoted, too. > EOS > cat >> modules.h < modules-1.h && > rm -f modules-1.h && > cat >> modules.h <<EOS && > }; > EOS > MODULES_FILES=$(echo $(cat modules-files)) && > rm -f modules-files] > AC_SUBST([MODULES_FILES]) _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf