On 07/20/2010 01:26 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/20/2010 12:16 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> At this point, I'm thinking of using AS_LITERAL_HEREDOC_IF plus one
>> additional check for "; all other uses of AC_PACKAGE_STRING and friends
>> appeared to be inside "", so it's just a documentation matter to mention
>> that these strings should be double-quoted for project-generic code
>> (such as automake), but an individual project that follows stricter
>> rules (such as coreutils version string always being a single shell
>> word) can get by with referencing AC_PACKAGE_VERSION outside double
>> quotes.
> 
> Considering Automake does
> 
> AC_SUBST([VERSION], ['AC_PACKAGE_VERSION'])])
> 
> I think that's fine, but since you are at it you should also check for
> single quotes.

Good point; patch for that coming up shortly.

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