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Re: What is an unquoted macro call?


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: What is an unquoted macro call?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:03:26 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-11-01)

Hello Jian,

* Jian Wang wrote on Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 08:57:48AM CET:
> 
> I tried to use AS_HELP_STRING and found that we cannot double quote its
> parameters. For example, I wrote a testing configure.ac like this:

> AC_ARG_WITH(
>    bar,
>    AS_HELP_STRING([--with-bar=DIR], [[Where to find bar libs]])
> )

>  --with-bar=DIR          Where, to, find, bar, libs

Thanks for the report.  This is a bug in AS_HELP_STRING.
As a workaround, you could stick to single quoting of that
argument for now.

Cheers,
Ralf




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