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List:       autoconf
Subject:    Re: Autoconf Transforms
From:       "Tom Browder" <tom.browder () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-10-16 1:47:51
Message-ID: 8bc817ee0810151847y5da8f98ay8312869f16969d34 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:
...
>>> I guess the manual is trying to tell me that implicitly by discussing
>>> the m4 processor parsing rules, but I haven't yet found an explicit
>>> warning to that effect about use of shell commands (except the
>>> warnings about portable shell programming and recomended non-use of
>>> the negated character class form).

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Active-Characters
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Quotation-Rule-Of-Thumb

Ah, I saw the section as programming in m4 and had missed the blurb
about  the whole configure.ac is transformed by m4.  Somehow I got the
idea that only the obvious macros are parsed by m4--obviously I was
really confused.

> is the right quoting.  If you have improvements for the wording in the
> manual, please let us know!

Thanks, Eric, I intend to try.

Regards,

-Tom



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