Re: R: M4 Macro OCTAVE_EVAL

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Marco Atzeri wrote:

> the additional escape characters can be caused by a wrong 
> TERM setting
> 
> for example if you are using rxvt and TERM=xterm

Actually, with the help of one of the two people who reported the
problem we've come up with this:

    AC_DEFUN([OCTAVE_EVAL],
    [
    AC_MSG_CHECKING([for $1 in $OCTAVE])
    $2=`TERM=;$OCTAVE -qfH --eval "disp($1)"`
    AC_MSG_RESULT($$2)
    AC_SUBST($2)
    ]) # OCTAVE_EVAL

Erik
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