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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: AC_CHECK_LIB acts very strangely in Darwin |
| Date: | Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:12:48 -0400 (EDT) |
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Short story: [ ] are quotation characters within configure.ac files. That's one reason why many m4 macros use "test" instead for readability.
The main reason is that some older systems do not have "[" as an alias for "test". -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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