On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx> wrote: ... >>> I guess the manual is trying to tell me that implicitly by discussing >>> the m4 processor parsing rules, but I haven't yet found an explicit >>> warning to that effect about use of shell commands (except the >>> warnings about portable shell programming and recomended non-use of >>> the negated character class form). http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Active-Characters http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Quotation-Rule-Of-Thumb Ah, I saw the section as programming in m4 and had missed the blurb about the whole configure.ac is transformed by m4. Somehow I got the idea that only the obvious macros are parsed by m4--obviously I was really confused. > is the right quoting. If you have improvements for the wording in the > manual, please let us know! Thanks, Eric, I intend to try. Regards, -Tom _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
