[gettext] Re: autoconf AC_OUTPUT_LINKS problems

[Bruno Haible]

address@hidden wrote on 1998-06-23:
> I think there are at least two separate problems with AC_OUTPUT_LINKS in
> autoconf 2.12.
> ...
> 1) If the call to AC_OUTPUT_LINKS contains more than one SOURCE and DEST,
> whether in one or multiple calls, the values will be space-separated.
> ...
> 2) As a defensive measure, just in case ac_sources or ac_dests is empty
> inside the loop, the `set` calls should "quote" the values:

You are right. Thanks for the report. In order to not get caught by
these problems, gettext-0.10.37 doesn't use AC_LINK_FILES any more.

Bruno