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List:       autoconf
Subject:    Re: Command Substitution in AC_ARG_WITH Help Strings
From:       Keith MARSHALL <keith.marshall () total ! com>
Date:       2005-08-01 8:27:32
Message-ID: OF88C2C552.965C2822-ON80257050.002DD223-80257050.002E7768 () total ! com
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>> > Given these limitations, can anyone suggest a better mechanism for
>> > achieving this objective?
>>
>> Use esyscmd to interpolate the output of the command at configure 
creation
>> time.
>
> But does that really offer any advantage over using a shell script to do 
the 
> same thing?  It still performs the substitution at the time when 
configure is 
> generated, rather than when it is run.

Sorry Andreas, I misunderstood this on first reading.  Of course it will 
be
cleaner than adding an extra file, and non-standard step, into the 
autoconf
generation process for configure.

Thanks for the tip; now, if I can just figure out the correct m4 
quoting...

Regards,
Keith.



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