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Re: Trace shows second argument to AC_SUBST


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: Trace shows second argument to AC_SUBST
Date: 23 Apr 2001 17:08:21 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley)

> I just tried out the new trace facility on Autoconf's own configure.in:
> $ ./autoconf --trace=AC_SUBST configure.in
> 
> and got some lines like
> 
> configure.in:8:AC_SUBST:AUTOTEST_PATH:m4_default([..], [.])
> configure.in:9:AC_SUBST:EXPR:$ac_cv_path_EXPR
> configure.in:15:AC_SUBST:M4:$ac_cv_path_M4

Which is what is expected :)  Maybe you meant --trace=AC_SUBST:'$1'.

> Where are the second arguments coming from, and btw., why is the
> m4_default call not expanded?

Because it is passed quoted.



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