* NightStrike wrote on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:24:36PM CEST: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > SYSHEAD_LIST=`echo $srcdir/include/sys/*.h` > > > > or > > set x $srcdir/include/sys/*.h > > shift > > SYSHEAD_LIST="$*" > > Which is more autoconfy-correct? Both have drawbacks and advantages. The first has a problem if $srcdir starts with a hyphen (not realistic; that would break lots of other places as well) or has other special characters; you could use AS_ECHO instead though as a remedy. The second does not fork, which is nice. But note that inside a macro, $* has relevance to M4, so you might need to write $][* or $[]*, depending on quotation level. > > This is purely a shell question. > > Well, doing it my way worked fine on the command line, both in bash > and sh, so I was confused. But the expansion that you hoped to happen did in fact only happen later in your testing. Try this on the command line: f=* echo "$f" echo $f Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
